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What is the adjective for hierarchies?

What's the adjective for hierarchies? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs hierarchize and hierarchise which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

hierarchical
  1. Pertaining to a hierarchy.
  2. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastic or priestly order.
  3. Classified or arranged according to various criteria into successive ranks or grades.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “I had grown up with a very hierarchical view of the world, based on clearly defined levels of status.”
      “It's a myth that goes back to the revolution and the triumph of America's ragtag guerrillas against the rigid, hierarchical British army.”
      “When employers want to reward all members of a hierarchical work group equally, they usually raise every member's wage by the same percentage.”
hierarchized
hierarchial
  1. Alternative form of hierarchical
hierarchal
  1. Relating to a hierarch.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The corporate structure was clearly hierarchal, with executives at the top and employees at the bottom.”
      “Some of that must surely be because of tradition and formality, but there is also an element of the hierarchal at work.”
      “Like Protestantism, it is a reform, which rejects a hierarchal system and does away with a priestly caste.”
hierarchic
  1. hierarchal
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Even in Maldon, the poorest and least mature of our towns, we find unmistakeable evidence of hierarchic and promotional notions.”
      “The public have no clue, as the people who create these problems are not on the hierarchic list of news, which we are, force-fed.”
      “In a hierarchic society, members will necessarily change position and some mechanism must be in place for this to occur.”
hierarchizing
  1. present participle of hierarchize
hierarchised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of hierarchise
hierarchising
  1. present participle of hierarchise
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