rank Synonyms
Another word for rank
• verb (Context 1)
To hold or occupy a specified position or level within a hierarchy or scale.
"Renewable energy now ranks among the region's fastest-growing industries."
• verb (Context 2)
To assign a specific grade, position, or relative standing to someone or something on a scale of quality, importance, or achievement.
"The annual survey ranks universities according to research output and student satisfaction."
• noun (Context 3)
A position, grade, or level within the hierarchy of the armed forces, a profession, or an organization.
"She rose rapidly through the department to attain the grade of senior director."
• noun (Context 4)
The ordinary members of an organization, profession, or military force, as distinct from its leaders or officers (usually in the plural).
"Discontent among the party's ranks forced the leadership to revise the proposal."
• adjective (Context 5)
Having a foul, stale, or offensive smell or taste, typically due to decay or rancidity.
"The forgotten gym clothes in the locker emitted a fetid odor that filled the hallway."
• noun (Context 6)
High social standing, eminence, or noble status within society.
"In the nineteenth-century novel, characters of wealth and nobility controlled the local parish."
• noun (Context 7)
A single line or row of people or objects, especially soldiers standing side by side or one of the eight horizontal rows of squares on a chessboard.
"The rook advanced to the eighth row and put the opposing king in check."
• adjective (Context 8)
Complete and utter (used as an intensifier before nouns denoting something undesirable or negative).
"Leaving the sensitive documents unlocked on the table was an act of utter carelessness."
• noun (Context 9)
A designated place where taxis park and wait in line for passengers.
"We walked outside the train station and joined the queue at the taxi stand."
• adjective (Context 10)
Growing too thickly, coarsely, or profusely (especially of vegetation or weeds).
"The abandoned orchard was choked with overgrown nettles and thorny brambles."
• verb (Context 11)
To arrange objects or people in a row or regular formation.
"Tall porcelain vases were ranked neatly along the mantelpiece."
Opposites of rank
The opposite of rank shifts depending on context. Common opposites include: