rank

The word “rank” has 1 syllable: rank

It's pronounced as /ræŋk/


What is synonym and antonym for rank?

In the thesaurus, “rank” has 428 synonyms and 85 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for rank along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for rank

  • abominable
  • absolute
  • abusive
  • align
  • all-out
  • alphabetize
  • ancestry
  • antecede
  • arrange
  • arrant
  • array
  • arresting
  • assign
  • assort
  • atrocious
  • authentic
  • authority
  • awful
  • bad
  • bank
  • be
  • be classed
  • be worth
  • belong
  • birth
  • blank
  • blatant
  • blood
  • blooming
  • bodacious
  • bracket
  • branch
  • break down
  • breed
  • button down
  • cachet
  • capacity
  • capital
  • caste
  • catalog
  • catalogue
  • categoric
  • categorical
  • categorize
  • category
  • chain
  • circumstance
  • class
  • classic
  • classification
  • classify
  • clean
  • clear
  • close
  • clump
  • cluster
  • coarse
  • codify
  • colligate
  • column
  • come first
  • compartment
  • compartmentalize
  • complete
  • concatenation
  • condition
  • confirmed
  • consequence
  • conspicuous
  • constant
  • consummate
  • count
  • count among
  • crashing
  • crass
  • cue
  • cull
  • damn
  • damned
  • dank
  • dead
  • deadly
  • decayed
  • decaying
  • decomposed
  • decomposing
  • definite
  • degree
  • dense
  • deplorable
  • description
  • detectable
  • digest
  • dignity
  • dirty
  • disagreeable
  • discernable
  • discernible
  • disgusting
  • dispose
  • distinct
  • distinction
  • distinguish
  • distribute
  • division
  • dominance
  • downright
  • dramatic
  • draw up
  • dreadful
  • echelon
  • egregious
  • emphatic
  • endless
  • establish
  • estate
  • esteem
  • estimate
  • eternal
  • evaluate
  • evident
  • evil-smelling
  • excessive
  • execrable
  • extraordinary
  • extravagant
  • extreme
  • exuberant
  • eye-catching
  • fair
  • family
  • fashion
  • feather
  • feculent
  • fertile
  • fetid
  • file
  • filthy
  • fix
  • flagrant
  • flat
  • flat-out
  • flourishing
  • footing
  • forerun
  • formation
  • foul
  • frightful
  • frowsty
  • frowsy
  • frowzy
  • fructiferous
  • function
  • funky
  • fusty
  • gamy
  • generation
  • gentility
  • gentleness
  • genuine
  • genus
  • give precedence
  • glaring
  • go ahead of
  • go before
  • grade
  • grandness
  • graveolent
  • gross
  • group
  • grown
  • habitual
  • have the advantage
  • heading
  • heinous
  • hierarchy
  • high
  • high-growing
  • highness
  • hopeless
  • horrible
  • huge
  • humid
  • identify
  • ilk
  • include
  • indecent
  • index
  • install
  • instate
  • inveterate
  • judge
  • junglelike
  • kidney
  • kind
  • label
  • lavish
  • league
  • level
  • like
  • line
  • list
  • loathsome
  • locate
  • loftiness
  • lousy
  • lush
  • luxuriant
  • main
  • malodorous
  • manner
  • marked
  • marshal
  • marshall
  • mephitic
  • moldy
  • monstrous
  • musty
  • nasty
  • nature
  • nauseating
  • nobility
  • nobleness
  • noisome
  • notable
  • note
  • noticeable
  • noxious
  • obnoxious
  • observable
  • obvious
  • odiferous
  • odoriferous
  • odorous
  • off
  • offensive
  • olid
  • order
  • organize
  • out-and-out
  • outrageous
  • outrank
  • outright
  • outstanding
  • overabundant
  • overgrown
  • overrun
  • paramountcy
  • parentage
  • patent
  • pecking order
  • pedigree
  • peg
  • perceptible
  • perfect
  • perpetual
  • pigeonhole
  • place
  • place in formation
  • plain
  • plumb
  • position
  • positive
  • precede
  • precedence
  • preeminence
  • preferment
  • preposterous
  • primacy
  • privilege
  • procession
  • productive
  • profound
  • profuse
  • prolific
  • prominent
  • pronounced
  • prosperous
  • pungent
  • pure
  • put
  • put away
  • put down as
  • put down for
  • put in line
  • putrescent
  • putrid
  • quality
  • queue
  • race
  • rampant
  • rancid
  • range
  • ranking
  • rate
  • rating
  • raunchy
  • real
  • recategorize
  • reclassify
  • recognize
  • reeking
  • reeky
  • refer
  • regard
  • regroup
  • regular
  • relegate
  • remarkable
  • repulsive
  • reputation
  • revolting
  • rich
  • ripe
  • rotted
  • rotten
  • rotting
  • row
  • rubric
  • rung
  • salient
  • screen
  • scurrilous
  • section
  • seed
  • semitropical
  • seniority
  • separate
  • sequence
  • series
  • set
  • settle
  • shameful
  • sheer
  • shelve
  • shocking
  • showy
  • sieve
  • sift
  • simple
  • situation
  • size up
  • skunky
  • slot
  • smelly
  • smutty
  • sort
  • sour
  • sovereignty
  • speciality
  • specialty
  • species
  • sphere
  • splashy
  • spoiled
  • spoiling
  • stale
  • stand
  • standing
  • stark
  • state
  • station
  • stature
  • status
  • stenchy
  • stinking
  • stinky
  • stock
  • stone
  • straight-out
  • stratum
  • striking
  • string
  • strong
  • strong-smelling
  • subcategorize
  • subclass
  • subdivision
  • subgroup
  • subspecies
  • superiority
  • superlative
  • supremacy
  • supreme
  • surpassing
  • systematize
  • tab
  • tainted
  • take the lead
  • tangled
  • terrible
  • terrific
  • thick
  • thorough
  • thoroughgoing
  • tier
  • title
  • total
  • train
  • tropical
  • turned
  • type
  • typecast
  • unadulterated
  • unalloyed
  • unconditional
  • undisguised
  • undying
  • unmitigated
  • unqualified
  • unremitting
  • unrestricted
  • utter
  • valuate
  • value
  • variety
  • verdant
  • veritable
  • very
  • vigorous
  • vile
  • visible
  • walk
  • weedy
  • wicked
  • wild
  • winnow
  • wretched

Antonyms for rank

  • ambrosial
  • aromatic
  • baseness
  • blighted
  • clean
  • commonness
  • concealed
  • confuse
  • debasement
  • degradation
  • disarrange
  • disorder
  • disorganization
  • disorganize
  • displace
  • disturb
  • dormant
  • doubtful
  • dubious
  • equivocal
  • flowery
  • fragrant
  • fresh
  • fruity
  • good
  • hidden
  • imperceptible
  • imperfect
  • incomplete
  • inconsequential
  • inconsiderable
  • inconspicuous
  • indefinite
  • inferior
  • inferiority
  • insignificance
  • insignificant
  • invisible
  • jumble
  • lowliness
  • lowness
  • lump
  • mess up
  • mild
  • misclassify
  • missort
  • mistype
  • mix up
  • moderate
  • moral
  • move
  • nice
  • part
  • partial
  • perfumed
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • pure
  • qualified
  • questionable
  • rare
  • redolent
  • restricted
  • savory
  • savoury
  • scarce
  • scatter
  • scented
  • scramble
  • slight
  • small
  • sparse
  • spicy
  • stunted
  • subordinateness
  • subordination
  • sweet
  • trifling
  • trivial
  • uncertain
  • unfinished
  • unimportance
  • unnoticeable
  • unobtrusive
  • woodsy

Meanings of rank

  • adjective
    1. Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter (used of negative things).
    2. Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
    3. Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.
    4. Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
    5. Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
    6. Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.
    7. Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).
    8. Gross, disgusting.
    9. Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
    10. Inflamed with venereal appetite; ruttish.
  • adverb
    1. Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
  • noun
    1. A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers [the corresponding term for the perpendicular columns in such a pattern is "file"].
    2. In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
    3. One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality.
    4. The level of one's position in a class-based society.
    5. A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
    6. A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
    7. Maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
    8. The dimensionality of an array or tensor.
    9. The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
    10. The size of any basis of a given matroid.
    11. One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number). The analog vertical lines are the files.
    12. (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation.
  • verb
    1. To place abreast, or in a line.
    2. To have a ranking.
    3. To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
    4. To take rank of; to outrank.

Example Sentences

  • The soldier was promoted to a higher rank after demonstrating exceptional leadership skills.
  • According to the latest report, our company holds the top rank in customer satisfaction.
  • She was proud of her rank in the academic competition, having placed in the top ten.
  • The team's performance this season has helped them improve their rank in the league standings.
  • The chef's signature dish earned him a rank among the best culinary talents in the city.

On this page you'll find 513 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to rank, such as: abominable, absolute, abusive, align, all-out, alphabetize, ambrosial.

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ladder

  • arrangement
  • array
  • calibration
  • computation
  • degree
  • degrees
  • disposal
  • disposition
  • distribution
  • echelon
  • extent
  • food chain
  • footing
  • gamut
  • gradation
  • graduation
  • hierarchy
  • level
  • order
  • ordering
  • peck order
  • pecking order
  • place
  • position
  • progression
  • proportion
  • range
  • ranking
  • rate
  • ratio
  • reach
  • reaches
  • register
  • rule
  • rung
  • scale
  • scope
  • sequence
  • series
  • setup
  • situation
  • spectrum
  • spot
  • spread
  • standing
  • station
  • status
  • steps
  • system
  • way

fancies

  • Shangri-las
  • admires
  • adores
  • appetites
  • appreciates
  • approve
  • be attracted to
  • be captivated by
  • be enamored of
  • be in love with
  • be inclined to think
  • bees
  • believe
  • bents
  • biases
  • big eyes
  • brainchildren
  • brainstorms
  • caprice
  • caprices
  • care for
  • castles in Spain
  • castles in the air
  • cherishes
  • chimera
  • chimeras
  • cloud-cuckoo-lands
  • cloudlands
  • conceit
  • conceits
  • conceive
  • conceives
  • conception
  • conceptions
  • concepts
  • concoctions
  • concocts
  • conjecture
  • contemplates
  • contrariness
  • cranks
  • crave
  • cravings
  • crazy about
  • creation
  • cup of tea
  • daydream
  • daydreams
  • daymares
  • delusion
  • delusions
  • desire
  • desires
  • devours
  • digs
  • dream of
  • dream up
  • dreams
  • druthers
  • endorse
  • enjoys
  • enthusiasms
  • envisage
  • envisagement
  • envisages
  • envision
  • envisioning
  • envisions
  • eyes for
  • fables
  • fabricates
  • fabrication
  • fabrications
  • fall for
  • fantasies
  • fantasize
  • fantasizes
  • fantasms
  • fantasy
  • favor
  • favors
  • feature
  • features
  • fictions
  • figment
  • figments
  • flash
  • fondness
  • foresees
  • freaks
  • gets a charge out of
  • gets a kick out of
  • goes for
  • groove
  • guess
  • gustoes
  • hallucinates
  • hallucination
  • hallucinations
  • hankering
  • has a soft spot for
  • head trip
  • humor
  • humors
  • idea
  • ideas
  • ideates
  • idolizes
  • ignes fatui
  • illusion
  • illusions
  • image
  • images
  • imagination
  • imaginativeness
  • imagines
  • impetuosities
  • impression
  • impressions
  • inclination
  • inclinations
  • infer
  • inspirations
  • interests
  • invention
  • inventions
  • invents
  • irrationality
  • is partial to
  • itch
  • kinks
  • leanings
  • like
  • likes
  • liking
  • likings
  • long for
  • longings
  • love affairs
  • loves
  • lust after
  • mad for
  • maggots
  • make up
  • makes up
  • manufactures
  • meditates
  • megrims
  • mind
  • mirage
  • mirages
  • muses
  • nightmare
  • nightmares
  • nonentities
  • notion
  • notions
  • palates
  • partialities
  • partiality
  • passions
  • penchant
  • perverseness
  • phantasies
  • phantasm
  • phantasms
  • phantom
  • picture
  • pictures
  • pie in the sky
  • pipe dream
  • pipe dreams
  • plans
  • pleasure
  • ponders
  • predilection
  • prefer
  • preference
  • preferences
  • prefers
  • prefigures
  • prejudices
  • prizes
  • projects
  • propensities
  • re-creates
  • realize
  • reckon
  • reflects
  • relish
  • relishes
  • relives
  • reminisces
  • reveres
  • reverie
  • romancing
  • ruminates
  • sanction
  • savors
  • savours
  • sees
  • shines
  • spark
  • spitball
  • stargazes
  • suppose
  • surmise
  • sweet tooth
  • take a liking to
  • take to
  • takes to
  • tastes
  • teeth
  • tendencies
  • thing
  • think
  • think likely
  • think up
  • thirsts
  • thought
  • thoughts
  • treasures
  • trump up
  • unrealities
  • uses
  • utopias
  • vagaries
  • vagary
  • vagrancies
  • values
  • velleity
  • venerates
  • vision
  • visions
  • visualization
  • visualizations
  • visualize
  • visualizes
  • weakness for
  • weaknesses
  • whim
  • whims
  • whimseys
  • whimsicalities
  • whimsies
  • wild for
  • will
  • wish for
  • worships
  • yearn for
  • yearning
  • yen
  • yens

gamesome

  • active
  • airy
  • amusing
  • animate
  • animated
  • antic
  • audacious
  • blithe
  • blithesome
  • boisterous
  • bold
  • boon
  • bouncy
  • brash
  • brazen
  • breezy
  • bubbly
  • buoyant
  • carefree
  • careless
  • cheerful
  • cheery
  • chipper
  • chirpy
  • clowning
  • cocky
  • coltish
  • comical
  • confident
  • considerate
  • convivial
  • crank
  • dapper
  • dashing
  • debonair
  • devil-may-care
  • devilish
  • easy
  • ecstatic
  • effervescent
  • elvish
  • euphoric
  • exhilarated
  • extraverted
  • extroverted
  • exuberant
  • fair
  • festive
  • flip
  • flippant
  • flirtatious
  • forward
  • free
  • fresh
  • frisky
  • frivolous
  • frolic
  • frolicsome
  • full of beans
  • full of fun
  • full of pep
  • fun
  • fun-loving
  • funny
  • game
  • gay
  • generous
  • gentlemanly
  • giddy
  • glad
  • gleeful
  • good-natured
  • happy
  • happy-go-lucky
  • high-spirited
  • hilarious
  • humorous
  • impertinent
  • impetuous
  • impish
  • impudent
  • in high spirits
  • insolent
  • insouciant
  • jaunty
  • jesting
  • jocose
  • jocular
  • jocund
  • joking
  • jolly
  • jovial
  • joyful
  • joyous
  • jumpy
  • keen
  • kittenish
  • larkish
  • light
  • light-headed
  • lighthearted
  • lively
  • lyric
  • merry
  • mirthful
  • mischievous
  • natty
  • nervy
  • outgoing
  • overexuberant
  • peppy
  • perky
  • playful
  • pleasure-seeking
  • prankish
  • presuming
  • provocative
  • puckish
  • pushy
  • rapturous
  • raucous
  • reasonable
  • reckless
  • roguish
  • rollicking
  • romping
  • rowdy
  • saucy
  • self-assertive
  • self-confident
  • showy
  • silly
  • smart
  • snappy
  • sparkling
  • spirited
  • sportive
  • sportsmanlike
  • sportsmanly
  • sportspersonlike
  • sporty
  • sprightly
  • spruce
  • square
  • square dealing
  • square-shooting
  • straight shooting
  • sunny
  • swaggering
  • teasing
  • tongue-in-cheek
  • trim
  • uninhibited
  • venturesome
  • vivacious
  • waggish
  • wanton
  • whimsical
  • wicked
  • wild
  • witty
  • zesty
  • zippy

absolutely

  • abundantly
  • actually
  • admittedly
  • all
  • all of
  • all over
  • altogether
  • assuredly
  • basically
  • by and large
  • categorically
  • certainly
  • chiefly
  • clean
  • cold
  • come hell or high water
  • completely
  • conclusively
  • consummately
  • copiously
  • dead
  • decidedly
  • decisively
  • definitely
  • doubtless
  • downright
  • easily
  • enough
  • entire
  • entirely
  • even
  • exactly
  • fast
  • flat
  • flat-out
  • for sure
  • forsooth
  • frankly
  • full
  • fully
  • generally
  • generously
  • greatly
  • hands down
  • heartily
  • honestly
  • indeed
  • indisputably
  • indubitably
  • largely
  • mainly
  • more or less
  • mostly
  • no ifs ands or buts
  • no strings attached
  • on the button
  • on the money
  • on the nose
  • out
  • overall
  • perfectly
  • plain
  • plumb
  • positively
  • precisely
  • predominantly
  • predominately
  • primarily
  • principally
  • purely
  • quite
  • radically
  • realistically
  • really
  • right on
  • soundly
  • stone
  • stone-cold
  • straight out
  • substantially
  • sure as can be
  • sure as hell
  • sure enough
  • surely
  • the very thing
  • thoroughly
  • through and through
  • totally
  • truly
  • truthfully
  • unambiguously
  • unconditionally
  • undoubtedly
  • unqualifiedly
  • unquestionably
  • utterly
  • verily
  • veritably
  • well
  • wholly
  • wide

wacko

  • aberrant
  • abnormal
  • amok
  • amuck
  • ape
  • around the bend
  • ballistic
  • balmy
  • bananas
  • barmy
  • bats
  • batty
  • bedlam
  • berserk
  • bonkers
  • brainsick
  • bug
  • bughouse
  • case
  • certifiable
  • character
  • codger
  • crack
  • crackbrain
  • crackbrained
  • cracked
  • crackers
  • crackpot
  • crank
  • cranky
  • crazed
  • crazy
  • cuckoo
  • daffy
  • daft
  • delirious
  • delusional
  • delusionary
  • demented
  • depressed
  • deranged
  • deviant
  • dingbat
  • disordered
  • distracted
  • distraught
  • disturbed
  • dotty
  • eccentric
  • fantastic
  • fey
  • fixated
  • flake
  • fool
  • foolish
  • frantic
  • frenzied
  • fruitcake
  • fruity
  • gaga
  • haywire
  • head case
  • hysteric
  • hysterical
  • insane
  • irrational
  • kook
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • lamebrain
  • loco
  • loon
  • looney
  • looney tunes
  • loony
  • loony tunes
  • loopy
  • lunatic
  • mad
  • madman
  • madwoman
  • maniac
  • maniacal
  • manic-depressive
  • mental
  • meshuga
  • meshugah
  • meshuggah
  • meshugge
  • monomaniac
  • monomaniacal
  • moonstruck
  • mythomaniac
  • neurotic
  • non compos mentis
  • nuclear
  • nut
  • nutcase
  • nuts
  • nutter
  • nutty
  • obsessed
  • obsessive
  • obsessive-compulsive
  • odd
  • oddball
  • oddity
  • off
  • original
  • out to lunch
  • paranoiac
  • paranoic
  • paranoid
  • paranoidal
  • patient
  • pixilated
  • pixillated
  • potty
  • psycho
  • psychoneurotic
  • psychopath
  • psychotic
  • queer
  • quiz
  • raving
  • scatty
  • schizo
  • schizoid
  • schizophrene
  • schizophrenic
  • screwball
  • screwy
  • senseless
  • sickie
  • sicko
  • sociopath
  • sociopathic
  • strange
  • teched
  • tetched
  • tike
  • touched
  • tyke
  • unbalanced
  • unhinged
  • unreasonable
  • unsound
  • wacky
  • weirdo
  • whacky
  • wigged-out
  • witless
  • wud
  • zany

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