hierarchical
If something is hierarchical it has clear levels of power and importance, such as a hierarchical corporation that has the boss at the top, or the hierarchical social order of junior high school popularity.
It's lonely at the top. That pretty much sums up hierarchical, pronounced "high-eh-RAR-ki-cal." In a hierarchical structure, people or groups are arranged according to ability or status. It helps to think of a triangle, with the leader at the highest point, layers of managers under him or her, and at the base, or widest part, the masses of workers who make up the largest part of the organization.
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classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers“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:
hierarchal, hierarchic
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class-conscious, stratified
(used of society) socially hierarchical
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gradable
capable of being graded (for quality or rank or size etc.)
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graded, ranked, stratified
arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks
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vertical
of or relating to different levels in a hierarchy (as levels of social class or income group)
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Antonyms:
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nonhierarchic, nonhierarchical
not classified hierarchically
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ungraded, unordered, unranked
not arranged in order hierarchically
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class-conscious, stratified
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