hierarchically

1 7.4

In a way that organizes people into clear levels from top leaders to lower staff

adverb
/ˌhaɪəˈrɑːkɪkli/

: jerárquicamente

Law firms are not structured hierarchically, like a corporation.
hierarchically organized
hierarchically arranged
hierarchically structured

And so psych can reason about context, context can arrange hierarchically and so on.

Examples

For each practice session to be productive, the material assigned by instructors must be organized hierarchically.

Academic text (1998)
And views are arranged hierarchically, so you actually you have a tree of views.
As places on it are filled in, they are hierarchically ordered.

Academic text (1997)
Yeah, because I have very rigid, hierarchically organized notes.
Individual firms were hierarchically organized, and many employees stayed with a firm for their full working lives.

Academic text (1993)
Like the military, its members are organized hierarchically by rank and file and have military degrees.

Academic text (1997)
Obviously, administrators are hierarchically ranked in terms of both salary and control over the university.

Academic text (2000)
Not only was governance organized hierarchically, it was frequently reduced to a set of governing rules.

Academic text (2017)
The paradigm is based on five distinct and hierarchically structured educational divisions.

Academic text (1993)
To enhance understanding, the topics were presented hierarchically, starting with the basics and progressing to advanced concepts.

Synonyms

ordinally

vshierarchically

1 7.2

In order by position, like first, second, third

orders things by levels of importance rather than by simple position

How Hierarchical

hierarchically

1 7.4

decentralized

15 5.4

Surface Forms

hierarchically positive

Morphology

hierarchically = hierarchical (transparent) = hierarchy + ical + ly

Formed by standard adverbial derivation: 'hierarchical' + '-ly'; 'hierarchical' is itself transparently derived from 'hierarchy' + '-ical', so the overall meaning is directly predictable.

Etymology

Hierarchically comes from hierarchy, which joined a Greek word for 'sacred' with arch meaning 'ruler', the same arch you see in monarch. A hierarchy once meant 'rule by sacred leaders', so hierarchically means 'in order of levels or rank', which is why we use it for groups or companies with clear levels.