Hierarchical Definition

-rärkəl
adjective
Of a hierarchy.
Webster's New World
The definition of hierarchical is something that is organized in terms of rank, or where rigid distinctions of power are identified and complied with.
A military system where there are clearly defined ranks and everyone must obey people ranked above them is an example of a hierarchical system.
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Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastic or priestly order.

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Classified or arranged according to various criteria into successive ranks or grades.

It has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art. - source?
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Origin of Hierarchical

  • Compare French hiérarchique.

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Hierarchical Sentence Examples

  • There had never been an absence of protest against the hierarchical doctrine.

  • A visual map is an essentially hierarchical two-dimensional graphical representation that is similar to other common representations variously called idea maps or brain maps.

  • This hierarchical tie was soon snapped, but the Hellenizing influence continued to work, and bore its most abundant fruit in the 5th century.

  • It is the union of these ideas with a hierarchical system, and with the temporal sovereignty of the head of that system in Tibet, which constitutes what is distinctively understood by the term Lamaism.

  • Here as in other domains, communications were becoming less hierarchical.

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