hierarchical.
Pertaining to a hierarchy (a ranking).
Meaning & usage
Pertaining to a hierarchy (a ranking).
Classified 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.
Classified or arranged according to various criteria into successive ranks or grades. Reflecting relationships wholly consisting of subranks subsumed by ranks, a branching pattern of logic modeled like a tree.
Where this word comes from
From hierarchy + -ical; compare French hiérarchique.
Pertaining to a hierarch (a high-ranking priest or bishop).
Where this word comes from
From hierarch + -ical.
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