Meanings
comparative more hierarchically · superlative most hierarchically
- Of, relating to, or arranged in a hierarchy.
1 more example
Unlike, say, botany or zoology, or even in a thesaural structure of a knowledge database, where the syntactical and semantic relationships between concepts is often highly ordered (e.g. hierarchically, cohyponymically), the central concepts and meanings in the field of management are more consensually negotiated.
1987 May 1, Stuart Hannabuss, “Collaborating over Meanings in Management: Drucker Looks at Effectiveness”, in Personnel Review, volume 16, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, page 34 - Pertaining to a transitive relation between objects by which they may be ordered into a hierarchy.
Origin
- Englishhierarchical
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishhierarchically
From hierarchical + -ly.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French hiérarchiquement
- hiérarchiquementof or relating to a hierarchy
German hierarchisch
- hierarchischof or relating to a hierarchy
Hungarian hierarchikusan
- hierarchikusanof or relating to a hierarchy
Italian gerarchicamente
- gerarchicamenteof or relating to a hierarchy
Polish hierarchicznie
- hierarchicznieof or relating to a hierarchy
Russian иерархически
- иерархически (ijerarxičeski)of or relating to a hierarchy
Spanish jerárquicamente
- jerárquicamenteof or relating to a hierarchy
Ukrainian ієрархі́чно
- ієрархі́чно (ijerarxíčno)of or relating to a hierarchy
Cite this entry
hierarchically. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hierarchically
“hierarchically.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hierarchically. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hierarchically,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hierarchically.
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