rank

Meanings

• a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another
  • "the entrance was guarded by ranks of policemen"
• relative status
  • "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority"
• 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"
• position in a social hierarchy
• the body of members of an organization or group
  • "they found dissension in their own ranks"
  • "he joined the ranks of the unemployed"
• take or have a position relative to others
  • "This painting ranks among the best in the Western World"
• assign a rank or rating to
  • "how would you rank these students?"
• take precedence or surpass others in rank
• very fertile; producing profuse growth
  • "rank earth"
• very offensive in smell or taste
  • "a rank cigar"
• conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
  • "rank treachery"
• complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
  • "a rank outsider"
• growing profusely
  • "rank jungle vegetation"

Synonyms

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