Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb stratify

5 senses of stratify

Sense 1
stratify -- (divide society into social classes or castes; "Income distribution often stratifies a society")
       => distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart -- (mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple")

Sense 2
stratify -- (form layers or strata; "The rock stratifies")
       => arrange, set up -- (put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order")

Sense 3
stratify -- (develop different social levels, classes, or castes; "Society stratifies when the income gap widens")
       => change -- (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night")

Sense 4
stratify -- (form, arrange, or deposit in layers; "The fish are stratified in barrels"; "The rock was stratified by the force of the water"; "A statistician stratifies the list of names according to the addresses")
       => put, set, place, pose, position, lay -- (put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point")

Sense 5
stratify -- (render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand; "stratify seeds")
       => inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise -- (introduce semen into (a female))

Antonyms of adj stratified

3 senses of stratified

Sense 1
graded, ranked, stratified -- (arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks; "stratified areas of the distribution")

INDIRECT (VIA hierarchical) -> nonhierarchical, nonhierarchic -- (not classified hierarchically)

Sense 2
stratified (vs. unstratified), bedded -- (deposited or arranged in horizontal layers; "stratified rock")

unstratified (vs. stratified) -- (not deposited in layers; "glacial till is unstratified")

Sense 3
class-conscious, stratified -- ((used of society) socially hierarchical; "American society is becoming increasingly stratified")

INDIRECT (VIA hierarchical) -> nonhierarchical, nonhierarchic -- (not classified hierarchically)

Similarity of adj stratified

3 senses of stratified

Sense 1
graded, ranked, stratified -- (arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks; "stratified areas of the distribution")
       => hierarchical (vs. nonhierarchical), hierarchal, hierarchic -- (classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers; "it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art"; "in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first")

Sense 2
stratified (vs. unstratified), bedded -- (deposited or arranged in horizontal layers; "stratified rock")
       => foliate, foliated, foliaceous -- ((especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata)
       => laminar, laminal -- (arranged in or consisting of laminae)
       => layered, superimposed -- (with one layer on top of another; "superimposed rocks")
       => sheetlike -- (resembling a sheet)

Sense 3
class-conscious, stratified -- ((used of society) socially hierarchical; "American society is becoming increasingly stratified")
       => hierarchical (vs. nonhierarchical), hierarchal, hierarchic -- (classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers; "it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art"; "in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first")