rank

  • (s) very fertile; producing profuse growth
    • rank earth
  • (s) very offensive in smell or taste
    • a rank cigar
  • (s) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
    • a crying shame
    • an egregious lie
    • flagrant violation of human rights
    • a glaring error
    • gross ineptitude
    • gross injustice
    • rank treachery
    egregious, flagrant, crying, glaring, gross,
  • (s) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
    • absolute freedom
    • an absolute dimwit
    • a downright lie
    • out-and-out mayhem
    • an out-and-out lie
    • a rank outsider
    • many right-down vices
    • got the job through sheer persistence
    • sheer stupidity
    out-and-out, right-down, sheer, absolute, downright,
  • (s) growing profusely
    • rank jungle vegetation

Nouns

  • (n) a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another
    • the entrance was guarded by ranks of policemen
  • (n) relative status
    • his salary was determined by his rank and seniority
  • (n) the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army)
    • the strike was supported by the union rank and file
    • he rose from the ranks to become a colonel
    rank and file,
  • (n) position in a social hierarchy
    • the British are more aware of social status than Americans are
    social rank, social station, social status,
  • (n) the body of members of an organization or group
    • they polled their membership
    • they found dissension in their own ranks
    • he joined the ranks of the unemployed
    membership,

Verbs

  • (v) take or have a position relative to others
    • This painting ranks among the best in the Western World
  • (v) assign a rank or rating to
    • how would you rank these students?
    • The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide
    grade, rate, place, range, order,
  • (v) take precedence or surpass others in rank outrank,

Synonyms

grade rate place range order rank and file outrank egregious flagrant crying glaring gross social rank social station social status out-and-out right-down sheer absolute downright membership

Words of close approximity

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