hierarchist

comparative more hierarchist · superlative most hierarchist

1. Of or pertaining to hierarchy.

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   “They believe that society would be better if it stood up more to the hierarchist status quo,” he said. “When something that represents that status quo comes along, there is a cultural resistance to it. That is the underlying cultural reason they will cherry-pick their symptoms and the facts into their ostensibly rational argument against smart meters.”

   2011 February 1, Felicity Barringer, “Are We Hard-Wired to Doubt Science?”, in The New York Times

   Synonyms: hierarchal, hierarchic · Antonyms: anarchal, anarchic, anarchist

plural hierarchists

1. An advocate for a hierarchy.

   The fear of corporatism, consumerism, middle-browism and a mass reading public has driven twentieth-century cultural hierarchists.

   1996, C. Bloom, Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory, page 113

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   Two of the groups involved, he said, are simply characterized: individualists (most people would call them libertarians, who want the government to butt out) and communitarians, the two poles on the political spectrum. The two other groups, he said, are called hierarchists and egalitarians.

   2011 February 1, Felicity Barringer, “Are We Hard-Wired to Doubt Science?”, in The New York Times

   Antonyms: anarchist