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Adjective: hierarchal  'hI-u,raa(r)-kul
  1. Classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers
    "it has been said that only a hierarchal society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art";
    - hierarchical, hierarchic

See also: class-conscious, gradable, graded, ranked, stratified, vertical

Antonym: nonhierarchic