Meaning | classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers. |
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Examples | - "it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art"
- "in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first"
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Synonyms | hierarchical, hierarchal |
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Narrower | class-conscious, stratified | (used of society) socially hierarchical |
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gradable | capable of being graded (for quality or rank or size etc.) |
graded, ranked, stratified | Arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks |
vertical | Of or relating to different levels in a hierarchy (as levels of social class or income group) |
Opposite | nonhierarchical, nonhierarchic | not classified hierarchically |
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Spanish | jerárquico |
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Catalan | jeràrquic |
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