Meanings
present singular third person outranks · participle present outranking · participle past outranked · past outranked
- transitiveTo be of a higher rank than.
- transitiveTo be more important than.
We've been acting on confidentiality, because we feel AIDS outranks the law.
1987 February 22, Ben Robbins, quoting Wanda Rickerby, “Conn. Mulls over Release of PWA Names”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 31, page 31 more example
More importantly, who could make a quick on-site risk assessment of regulations where the welfare of trapped passengers might out-rank the risk of, say, running a train through flood water over the rail head where it is obvious the track is still there?
2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 44
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*úd
- Proto-Germanic*ūt
- Proto-Germanic*ūt-
- Old Englishūt-
- Middle Englishut-
- Englishout-
- Englishrank
- Englishoutrank
Translations
French dépasser
- dépasserTranslations
Spanish ser de mayor rango que, ser de rango superior a
- ser de mayor rango queTranslations
- ser de rango superior aTranslations
- superar(lo) en rango (a)Translations
Turkish üstü olmak
- üstü olmakTranslations
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with outrank
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Cite this entry
outrank. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outrank
“outrank.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outrank. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outrank,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outrank.
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