adv
Meaning 1
Of, relating to, or arranged in a hierarchy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
hierarchically
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈhaɪə(ɹ)ˌɑː(ɹ)k.ɪk.æli/
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UK: /ˈhaɪə(ɹ)ˌɑː(ɹ)k.ɪkli/
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UK: /ˈhaɪə(ɹ)ˌæk.ɪkli/
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adv
Meaning 2
Pertaining to a transitive relation between objects by which they may be ordered into a hierarchy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 3
in a hierarchical manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- hierarchically organized
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English hierarchical Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English hierarchically From hierarchical + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- French: hiérarchiquement — of or relating to a hierarchy
- Galician: xerarquicamente — of or relating to a hierarchy
- German: hierarchisch — of or relating to a hierarchy
- Hungarian: hierarchikusan — of or relating to a hierarchy
- Italian: gerarchicamente — of or relating to a hierarchy
- Polish: hierarchicznie — of or relating to a hierarchy
- Russian: иерархически (ijerarxičeski) — of or relating to a hierarchy
- Spanish: jerárquicamente — of or relating to a hierarchy
- Ukrainian: ієрархі́чно (ijerarxíčno) — of or relating to a hierarchy