1.
[syn: hierarchical, hierarchal, hierarchic]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Hierarchal \Hi"er*arch`al\, Hierarchic \Hi`er*arch"ic\, a.
Pertaining to a hierarch. "The great hierarchal standard."
--Milton.
[1913 Webster] hierarchic
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
hierarchic \hi`er*arch"ic\, hierarchical \hi`er*arch"ic*al\, a.
[Cf. F. hi['e]rarchique.]
Of or pertaining to a hierarchy; ordered in a hierarchy. --
Hi`er*arch`ic*al*ly, adv.
Syn: hierarchical, hierarchal.
[1913 Webster]
2. Pertaining to a transitive relation between objects by
which they may be ordered into a hierarchy; as, a
hierarchical relation.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
hierarchic
adj 1: 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" [syn: hierarchical, hierarchal,
hierarchic] [ant: nonhierarchic, nonhierarchical]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "hierarchic":
assorted, cataloged, classified, filed, graded, grouped,
hierarchal, indexed, on file, pigeonholed, placed, pyramidal,
ranked, rated, sorted, stratified, tabular, theocratic,
theocratist