"hierarchical" in the adjective sense
1. hierarchical, hierarchal, hierarchic
classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers
"it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art"
"in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first"
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