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Meaning of HIERARCHICAL

Pronunciation:  `hIu'rârkikul

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  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: class-conscious, gradable, graded, hierarchal, hierarchic, ranked, stratified
 
 Antonyms: nonhierarchic, nonhierarchical
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Hi`er*arch"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. hi['e]rarchique.]
Pertaining to a hierarchy. -- {Hi`er*arch`ic*al*ly}, adv.
 

 

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