unsortable
Cannot be ranked
Unsortable describes something that cannot be arranged in a meaningful order or assigned to categories.
Data may be unsortable when it lacks consistent formatting: The spreadsheet was unsortable because dates appeared in three different formats.
Objects or ideas may be unsortable when they resist classification: Her music is unsortable—it doesn't fit any genre.
Randomly determined, statistically describable
- probabilisticBased on likelihood calculations
- aleatoryGoverned by chance
- indeterminateNot exactly known
- unpredictableCannot be anticipated
arbitrary · chance · haphazard · erratic · capricious · nondeterministic · entropic · shuffled
Impossible to manage
- nonlinearNot in sequence
- multidimensionalHaving many distinct aspects
- recursiveDefined in terms of itself
- fractalShape repeating at every scale
multivariate · interdependent · tangled · convoluted · labyrinthine · knotty · Byzantine · nested
stochastic
Randomly determined, statistically describable
- probabilisticBased on likelihood calculations
- aleatoryGoverned by chance
- indeterminateNot exactly known
unpredictable · arbitrary · chance · haphazard · erratic · capricious · nondeterministic · entropic · shuffled · disordered
intractable
Impossible to manage
- nonlinearNot in sequence
- multidimensionalHaving many distinct aspects
- recursiveDefined in terms of itself
fractal · multivariate · interdependent · tangled · convoluted · labyrinthine · knotty · Byzantine · nested · layered
chaos
Complete disorder and confusion
muddle · mess · confusion · pandemonium · bedlam · mayhem · tumult · havoc · entropy · turbulence
unsortablesortable
Able to be classified
organizable · orderable · arrangeable · rankable · classifiable
sort, sortable, sorted, sorting, sorter, sorters, sorts, unsorted, resort