hierarchical
adjective
of, belonging to, or characteristic of a hierarchy.
nonhierarchical
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a word derived from
hierarchical.
Example Sentences
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Furniture, vessels, porcelain, silver and a sampling of household goods populate a display that’s nonhierarchical.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
How do I gently say, “That is a YOU problem”? We work at a nonhierarchical organization.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2024
But Barber’s vision of the SBC is small-d democratic, and nonhierarchical.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2022
The Davids demolish the Hobbesian narrative by pointing to complex, agricultural societies—in Asia, the Middle East and the Americas—that governed themselves in nonhierarchical ways.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 28, 2022
Dark, cynical, morbid cyberpunk that I am, I cannot avoid considering some of the darker implications of "decentralized, nonhierarchical, locally empowered" networking.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling
