zetabetical

English

Etymology

Blend of zeta +‎ alphabetical

Adjective

zetabetical (not comparable)

  1. (rare) In reverse alphabetical order.
    • 1974, Accountancy - Volume 85, page 120:
      Whether the reader wants to know what a googol is (it's an extremely large number, written out in full: one, followed by one hundred zeros); something about game theory; about serendipity; series; stochastic processes; Z charts or zetabetical sequences (in reverse alphabetical order) - or countless useful bits of statistical and business mathematical information, they are all to be found here.
    • 1989, Virginia A. Arnold, Connections: language arts/reading - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 32:
      The stories might be arranged in alphabetical (or zetabetical!) order.
    • 2017, Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, →ISBN, page 96:
      I'd cleaned the bathroom and washed the kitchen floor, taken out the recycling and arranged all the tins in the cupboard so that the labels were facing forwards in zetabetical order.
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