Usually means: Organized in levels of importance.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word hierarchical:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. hierarchical: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hierarchical: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hierarchical: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hierarchical: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hierarchical: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hierarchical, hierarchical: Wordnik
  7. hierarchical: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hierarchical: Wiktionary
  9. hierarchical: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hierarchical: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Hierarchical, hierarchical: Dictionary.com
  12. Hierarchical: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Hierarchical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. hierarchical: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. hierarchical: Rhymezone
  16. Hierarchical: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. hierarchical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. hierarchical: Free Dictionary
  19. hierarchical: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. hierarchical: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  21. hierarchical: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hierarchical: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. hierarchical: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hierarchical: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Pertaining to a hierarchy.
▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastic or priestly order.
▸ adjective:  Classified or arranged according to various criteria into successive ranks or grades.

Similar:
hierarchal, hierarchic, class-conscious, graded, stratified, ranked, hierarchial, hierarchist, heterarchical, superhierarchical, more...

Opposite:
egalitarian, flat, democratic, nonhierarchical, horizontal

Types:
tree, tree-like, hierarchical tree, more...

Phrases:
hierarchical structure, Hierarchical organization, hierarchical model, Hierarchical clustering, Hierarchical classification, more...

Adjectives:
less, more, non, inherently, organic, intrinsically, traditional, simple, tangled, very

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     bronze,     royal blue,     crimson,     burgundy,     navy blue,     charcoal,     ivory,     platinum

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Similar:
hierarchal, hierarchic, class-conscious, graded, stratified, ranked, hierarchial, hierarchist, heterarchical, superhierarchical, more...

Opposite:
egalitarian, flat, democratic, nonhierarchical, horizontal

Types:
tree, tree-like, hierarchical tree, more...

Phrases:
hierarchical structure, Hierarchical organization, hierarchical model, Hierarchical clustering, Hierarchical classification, hierarchical database, hierarchical routing, hierarchical menu, more...

Adjectives:
less, more, non, inherently, organic, intrinsically, traditional, simple, tangled, very

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     bronze,     royal blue,     crimson,     burgundy,     navy blue,     charcoal,     ivory,     platinum



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