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hierarchic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective hierarchic has 1 sense
- hierarchic(a = adj.all) hierarchal, hierarchical - 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"
CIDE DICTIONARY
hierarchic, a.
Pertaining to a hierarch. Milton. [1913 Webster]
hierarchic, a. [Cf. F. hiérarchique.].
- Of or pertaining to a hierarchy; ordered in a hierarchy. [1913 Webster]
- Pertaining to a transitive relation between objects by which they may be ordered into a hierarchy; as, a hierarchical relation. [PJC]
THESAURUS
hierarchic
assorted, cataloged, classified, filed, graded, grouped, hierarchal, indexed, on file, pigeonholed, placed, pyramidal, ranked, rated, sorted, stratified, tabular, theocratic, theocratist
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