Synonyms for rank
ræŋkrank

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1. rank

   A class is a number or body of persons or objects having common pursuits, purposes, attributes, or characteristics. A caste is hereditary; a class may be independent of lineage or descent; membership in a caste is supposed to be for life; membership in a class may be very transient; a religious and ceremonial sacredness attaches to the caste, as not to the class. The rich and the poor form separate classes; yet individuals are constantly passing from each to the other; the classes in a college remain the same, but their membership changes every year. We speak of rank among hereditary nobility or military officers; of various orders of the priesthood; by accommodation, we may refer in a general way to the higher ranks, the lower orders of any society. Grade implies some regular scale of valuation, and some inherent qualities for which a person or thing is placed higher or lower in the scale; as, the coarser and finer grades of wool; a man of an inferior grade. A coterie is a small company of persons of similar tastes, who meet frequently in an informal way, rather for social enjoyment than for any serious purpose. Clique has always an unfavorable meaning. A clique is always fractional, implying some greater gathering of which it is a part; the association breaks up into cliques. Persons unite in a coterie through simple liking for one another; they withdraw into a clique largely through aversion to outsiders. A set, while exclusive, is more extensive than a clique, and chiefly of persons who are united by common social station, etc. Circle is similar in meaning to set, but of wider application; we speak of scientific and religious as well as of social circles.

   Synonyms:
   association, caste, circle, clan, class, clique, club, company, coterie, grade, order, set

   Preposition:
   A class of merchants; the senior class at (sometimes of) Harvard; the classes in college.

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1. ranknoun

   Synonyms:
   row, line, tier, order, degree, grade, dignity

   Antonyms:
   disconnection, disorder, incontinuity, solution, intermission, hiatus, plebeianism, meanness, commonalty

2. rankadjective

   Synonyms:
   luxuriant, exuberant, extreme, excessive, rampant

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1. ranknoun

   a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another

   "the entrance was guarded by ranks of policemen"

   Synonyms:
   membership, social rank, social station, social status, rank and file

   Antonyms:
   inconspicuous, scarce, invisible, incomplete, inoffensive, sterile, infertile, uncomplete, unfertile

2. ranknoun

   relative status

   "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority"

   Synonyms:
   membership, social rank, social station, social status, rank and file

   Antonyms:
   scarce, unfertile, invisible, inoffensive, infertile, inconspicuous, sterile, incomplete, uncomplete

3. rank and file, ranknoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   social rank, social station, membership, social status, rank and file

   Antonyms:
   inoffensive, inconspicuous, scarce, unfertile, invisible, sterile, infertile, uncomplete, incomplete

4. social station, social status, social rank, ranknoun

   position in a social hierarchy

   "the British are more aware of social status than Americans are"

   Synonyms:
   social rank, social station, rank and file, membership, social status

   Antonyms:
   scarce, sterile, inconspicuous, invisible, inoffensive, infertile, incomplete, uncomplete, unfertile

5. membership, rankadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   social rank, social station, membership, social status, rank and file

   Antonyms:
   inoffensive, uncomplete, invisible, inconspicuous, incomplete, sterile, infertile, unfertile, scarce

6. rankadjective

   very fertile; producing profuse growth

   "rank earth"

   Synonyms:
   rank(a), sheer(a), downright, crying(a), egregious, right-down, glaring, flagrant, absolute, out-and-out(a), gross

   Antonyms:
   sterile, inconspicuous, invisible, uncomplete, infertile, unfertile, incomplete, inoffensive, scarce

7. rankadjective

   very offensive in smell or taste

   "a rank cigar"

   Synonyms:
   rank(a), sheer(a), downright, crying(a), egregious, right-down, glaring, flagrant, absolute, out-and-out(a), gross

   Antonyms:
   unfertile, inconspicuous, infertile, incomplete, invisible, uncomplete, scarce, sterile, inoffensive

8. crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rankadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   invisible, inconspicuous, infertile, inoffensive, incomplete, sterile, uncomplete, scarce, unfertile

9. absolute, downright, out-and-out(a), rank(a), right-down, sheer(a)adjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   unfertile, inoffensive, scarce, uncomplete, incomplete, infertile, invisible, inconspicuous, sterile

10. rankverb

    growing profusely

    "rank jungle vegetation"

    Synonyms:
    rank(a), sheer(a), downright, crying(a), egregious, right-down, glaring, flagrant, absolute, out-and-out(a), gross

    Antonyms:
    infertile, inconspicuous, incomplete, scarce, uncomplete, sterile, unfertile, inoffensive, invisible

11. rankverb

    take or have a position relative to others

    "This painting ranks among the best in the Western World"

    Synonyms:
    range, outrank, place, order, grade, rate

    Antonyms:
    unfertile, scarce, sterile, incomplete, uncomplete, invisible, infertile, inconspicuous, inoffensive

12. rate, rank, range, order, grade, placeverb

    assign a rank or rating to

    "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"

    Synonyms:
    roll, vagabond, dictate, score, ramble, mark, set up, identify, localize, range, enjoin, run, target, stray, rove, tell, post, station, place, browse, point, come in, regulate, array, graze, say, govern, cast, straddle, arrange, send, pasture, lay, wander, regularize, position, ordinate, aim, ordain, regularise, direct, grade, lay out, swan, site, tramp, value, put, crop, invest, outrank, localise, consecrate, rate, commit, drift, pose, come out, set, prescribe, order, locate, roam, set out

    Antonyms:
    infertile, incomplete, uncomplete, inoffensive, unfertile, sterile, inconspicuous, invisible, scarce

13. rank, outrankverb

    take precedence or surpass others in rank

    Synonyms:
    range, outrank, place, order, grade, rate

    Antonyms:
    uncomplete, inoffensive, unfertile, invisible, sterile, incomplete, inconspicuous, scarce, infertile

Matched Categories

1. • Be
   • Force
   • Line
   • Military
   • Status
   • Surpass

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1. rankadjective

   Synonyms:
   luxuriant, vigorous, exuberant, over-abundant

2. rankadjective

   Synonyms:
   excessive, overmuch, extravagant, rampant, very great

3. rankadjective

   Synonyms:
   rancid, musty, fusty, fetid, offensive, FROWZY, strong-smelling, strong-scented

4. ranknoun

   Synonyms:
   row (as of soldiers, reckoned from side to side), tier, range, FILE

5. ranknoun

   Synonyms:
   class, order, division, head, category

6. ranknoun

   Synonyms:
   degree, grade, quality, relative station

7. ranknoun

   Synonyms:
   dignity, nobility, noble class, aristocratic class

8. rankverb

   Synonyms:
   class, arrange, range

9. rankverb

   Synonyms:
   [Modern.] outrank, take precedence of

10. rankverb

    Synonyms:
    be ranked, be classed, take rank, have rank

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1. rankadjective

   Synonyms:
   exuberant, luxuriant, rampant, vigorous, violent, extreme, excessive, immoderate, gross, rancid, musty, frowzy, fetid, stale, offensive, impalatable, fulsome, foul, gross

2. ranknoun

   Synonyms:
   row, line, range, order, tier, series, grade, class, order, division, position, station, degree, eminence, distinction

3. rankverb

   Synonyms:
   classify, arrange, dispose, class, group, be ranked

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1. List of paraphrases for "rank":

   grade, classify, ranking, range, ranks, rang, degree, hierarchy, classification, grades, row, categorize, classifying, categories, grading, category, level, degrees

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. RANK

   Synonyms:
   Receptor activator of NF-kB, TNFRSF11A

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1. Peter Drucker:

   Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

2. Henry David Thoreau:

   It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

3. Cathy Scheller:

   My thoughts are, our son said to him ‘if you thought this was a bad idea, were you willing to take your rank and put it down and say I won’t put our men and women in peril?’ -- He said have dropped his rank and resigned and said ‘I will not do this to our members’ He didn’t do that.

4. Mark Sanford:

   I suspect it would stir up the rank and file. And when you get the rank and file at the grass-roots level, other folks get stirred up within the conference.

5. Confucius:

   Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.