Synonyms of sorting

sorting

verb

present participle of sort

1

as in traveling

to come or be together as friends

you should be careful about whom you sort with

Synonyms & Similar Words

• traveling
• associating
• mixing
• running
• connecting
• joining
• mingling
• collaborating
• relating
• bonding
• befriending
• cooperating
• grouping
• hanging (around or out)
• taking up with
• rubbing shoulders (with)
• consorting
• companying
• keeping company (with)
• chumming
• fraternizing
• being friends with
• messing around
• rubbing elbows (with)
• falling in with
• hooking up
• hobnobbing
• palling (around)
• coupling
• tying
• linking
• socializing
• attaching
• interrelating
• banding
• allying
• teaming
• consociating
• rallying
• affiliating
• getting along
• knotting
• friending
• clubbing
• ganging
• getting on
• siding
• wedding
• conjoining
• confederating
• leaguing
• colluding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• avoiding
• shunning
• snubbing
• alienating
• dispersing
• splitting
• estranging
• splitting (up)
• disbanding
• cold-shouldering
• breaking up
• dissociating
• divorcing
• severing
• sundering
• disjoining
• disuniting

2

as in corresponding

to be in agreement on every point

that doesn't sort with what you said the last time

Synonyms & Similar Words

• corresponding
• coinciding
• conforming
• checking
• fitting
• agreeing
• consisting
• answering
• according
• rhyming
• tallying
• squaring
• harmonizing
• going
• matching
• falling in with
• cohering
• aligning
• dovetailing
• comporting
• chording
• jibing
• paralleling
• equaling
• registering
• lining up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• differing (from)
• disagreeing (with)
• contradicting
• disputing
• conflicting
• nullifying
• negating
• clashing
• gainsaying
• jarring

3

as in classifying

to arrange or assign according to type

sorted the mail into bills to be paid and junk to be thrown out

Synonyms & Similar Words

• classifying
• ranking
• grouping
• distinguishing
• grading
• categorizing
• separating
• typing
• relegating
• distributing
• organizing
• placing
• assorting
• identifying
• filing
• listing
• classing
• compartmentalizing
• digesting
• ranging
• codifying
• recognizing
• pegging
• alphabetizing
• cataloging
• ordering
• culling
• disposing
• systematizing
• indexing
• compartmenting
• breaking down
• referring
• sifting
• shelving
• arraying
• sieving
• marshaling
• winnowing
• clustering
• drawing up
• regrouping
• clumping
• reclassifying
• screening
• pigeonholing
• setting
• recategorizing
• colligating
• subcategorizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• scrambling
• mixing (up)
• jumbling
• lumping
• confusing
• disarranging
• misclassifying
• mistyping
• missorting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of sorting

For example, a package traveling from California to New York might otherwise move through a national ground network, passing through multiple sorting facilities and spending several days in long-haul transit before reaching the final mile. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 14 Aug. 2026

Neugarten recommends sorting reviews by newest instead of relying on an average that may include feedback from years ago. — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2026

Volunteers in action By Tuesday, GEM’s headquarters in Doral were filled with dozens of volunteers sorting and packing donations. — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2026

That also adds more delicate work like kitting and sorting to what Digit is already doing in bulk material handling. — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

And doctors have more treatment options, including a new generation of sperm-sorting machines that can select the healthiest sperm to inject directly into an egg. — Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2026

In some cases, multiple days can pass between putting an item in the mail and it being processed and postmarked by a sorting machine. — Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026

The uncertainties associated with each detector’s results come from the sorting process that physicists go through to identify geoneutrinos, Bayes said. — James Dinneen, Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2026

During that time, plundered artworks were processed at the Jeu de Paume, which temporarily served as a sorting facility for the Nazi party. — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 31 July 2026