stratified
Use the adjective stratified to describe something with many layers, either physically (like the layers of your skin) or socially (a kingdom with the king at the top and peasants at the bottom).
If you’ve ever studied geology, you’ve heard about strata: layers of sand, clay, and rock spread out one on top of the other. A lot of things can be described like that. The Amazon jungle is stratified — with massive trees up high and shrubbery below. The division between rich and poor people is an example of a stratified society. And when you spread peanut butter onto bread, and then add jelly on top of that, well, sure, that’s a stratified sandwich.
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deposited or arranged in horizontal layers“stratified rock”
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synonyms:
bedded
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foliaceous, foliate, foliated
(especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
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laminal, laminar
arranged in or consisting of laminae
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layered, superimposed
with one layer on top of another
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sheetlike
resembling a sheet
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Antonyms:
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unstratified
not deposited in layers
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foliaceous, foliate, foliated
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(used of society) socially hierarchical“American society is becoming increasingly stratified”
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synonyms:
class-conscious
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hierarchal, hierarchic, hierarchical
classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers
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hierarchal, hierarchic, hierarchical
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arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks“stratified areas of the distribution”
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hierarchal, hierarchic, hierarchical
classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers
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hierarchal, hierarchic, hierarchical
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