Hierarchical

Adjective

Definitions

1.AdjectivePertaining to a hierarchy (a ranking).

2.AdjectiveClassified or arranged according to various criteria into successive ranks or grades.

"She claimed that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of 'true' art."

3.AdjectiveReflecting relationships wholly consisting of subranks subsumed by ranks, a branching pattern of logic modeled like a tree.

4.AdjectivePertaining to a hierarch (a high-ranking priest or bishop).

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