1. A commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status
   "As a former ranker, she understood the challenges faced by enlisted personnel"
    
2. An enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces
   "The ranker worked his way up through the military hierarchy"

1. Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as an intensifier
   "a rank outsider";
   - absolute, downright, out-and-out, right-down, sheer, down-the-line [informal]
    
2. Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
   "rank treachery";
   - crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross
    
3. Very offensive in smell or taste
   "a rank cigar"
    
4. Very fertile; producing profuse growth
   "rank earth"
    
5. Growing profusely
   "rank jungle vegetation"

Sounds like: rancor, r

Derived forms: rankers

See also: abundant, complete, conspicuous, fertile, offensive

Type of: commissioned officer, pongo [Brit, informal], soldier

Encyclopedia: Ranker