Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hierarchical"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hierarchical \Hi`er*arch"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. hi['e]rarchique.]
Pertaining to a hierarchy. -- {Hi`er*arch`ic*al*ly}, adv.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hierarchical
adj : 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: {hierarchal}, {hierarchic}]
[ant: {nonhierarchical}]
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