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What is the adjective for rankest?

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

rank
  1. Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter.
  2. Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
  3. Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.
  4. Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
  5. Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
  6. Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.
  7. Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).
  8. (informal) Gross, disgusting.
  9. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
  10. (obsolete) Inflamed with venereal appetite.
  11. Synonyms:
  12. Examples:
    1. “A rank smell from the kitchen wafted its way towards Hailey's nose.”
      “He slipped, stumbled, and fell full length into the rank grass.”
      “In view of these facts, it would seem like rank stupidity to discourage the development of the culture of the grape and its various products.”
ranking
rankable
  1. Capable of being ranked.
rankless
  1. Devoid of rank.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Under a rankless system of nomenclature, in which a binomial effectively functions as a uninominal, the taxonomist could not correct this matter.”
rankish
  1. Somewhat rank.
rankest
  1. superlative form of rank: most rank
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “To question the ingenuousness of this gush seemed to be the rankest absurdity.”
      “How can liberty and the rankest tyranny have anything to do with each other?”
      “But it is the G. O. P. that engages in the rankest hypocrisy in this regard and appeals to our basest instincts.”
ranked
  1. simple past tense and past participle of rank
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Those categorized as more able were in the top fifteen percent of the ranked students and those categorized as less able were those ranked in the bottom fifteen percent of the class at the end of the semester.”
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