Home › Words › H › hierarchisthierarchisthierarchist means of or pertaining to hierarchy.EtymologyFrom hierarchy + -ist.adjOf or pertaining to hierarchy.nounAn advocate for a hierarchy.e.g.“The fear of corporatism, consumerism, middle-browism and a mass reading public has driven twentieth-century cultural hierarchists.” — 1996, C. Bloom, Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory, page 113:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.antihierarchist 75% match — One who opposes a hierarchy. vs hierarchist →hierarchicalism 70% match — The process or policy of organising as a hierarchy. vs hierarchist →antihierarchy 70% match — Opposing a hierarchy or hierarchies in general. vs hierarchist →antihierarchical 70% match — Opposing a hierarchy or hierarchies in general. vs hierarchist →hierarchate 68% match — Synonym of hierarchy. vs hierarchist →hierarch 68% match — One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order. vs hierarchist →archism 67% match — Synonym of hierarchism. vs hierarchist →hierarchized 64% match — arranged in a hierarchy vs hierarchist →