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Definitions for Rankness

[1] growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth: tall rank weeds.
[2] producing an excessive and coarse growth, as land.
[3] having an offensively strong smell or taste: a rank cigar.
[4] offensively strong, as a smell or taste.
[5] utter; absolute: a rank amateur; rank treachery.
[6] highly offensive; disgusting: a rank sight of carnage.
[7] grossly coarse, vulgar, or indecent: rank language.
[8] Slang . inferior; contemptible.
[9] (ræŋk ) J (oseph ) Arthur , 1st Baron. 1888–1972, British industrialist and film executive, whose companies dominated the British film industry in the 1940s and 1950s
[10] (German raŋk ) Otto (ˈɔto). 1884–1939, Austrian psychoanalyst, noted for his theory that the trauma of birth may be reflected in certain forms of mental illness
[11] a position, esp an official one, within a social organization, esp the armed forces the rank of captain
[12] high social or other standing; status
[13] a line or row of people or things
[14] the position of an item in any ordering or sequence
[15] British a place where taxis wait to be hired
[16] a line of soldiers drawn up abreast of each other Compare file 1 (def. 5)
[17] any of the eight horizontal rows of squares on a chessboard
[18] (in systemic grammar) one of the units of description of which a grammar is composed. Ranks of English grammar are sentence, clause, group, word, and morpheme
[19] music a set of organ pipes controlled by the same stop
[20] maths (of a matrix) the largest number of linearly independent rows or columns; the number of rows (or columns) of the nonzero determinant of greatest order that can be extracted from the matrix
[21] break ranks military to fall out of line, esp when under attack
[22] close ranks to maintain discipline or solidarity, esp in anticipation of attack
[23] pull rank to get one's own way by virtue of one's superior position or rank
[24] (tr) to arrange (people or things) in rows or lines; range
[25] to accord or be accorded a specific position in an organization, society, or group
[26] (tr) to array (a set of objects) as a sequence, esp in terms of the natural arithmetic ordering of some measure of the elements to rank students by their test scores
[27] (intr) to be important; rate money ranks low in her order of priorities
[28] mainly US to take precedence or surpass in rank the colonel ranks at this camp
[29] showing vigorous and profuse growth rank weeds
[30] highly offensive or disagreeable, esp in smell or taste
[31] (prenominal) complete or absolute; utter a rank outsider
[32] coarse or vulgar; gross his language was rank

Words related to Rankness

rankboldness, outrageousness, brazenness, grossness, enormity, atrocity, egregiousness, flagrance

Words nearby Rankness

rankranikhet disease, ranine, ranine artery, ranitidine, ranjit singh, rank, rank and file, rank scale, rank-and-filer, ranke, ranker

Origin of Rankness

2before 1000; Middle English; Old English ranc bold, proud; cognate with Old Norse rakkr straight, bold

Other words from Rankness

rank·ish , adjective
rank·ly , adverb
rank·ness , noun

Word origin for Rankness

Old English ranc straight, noble; related to Old Norse rakkr upright, Dutch, Swedish rank tall and thin, weak

Synonyms for Rankness

atrociousness, atrocity, boldness, brazenness, enormity, grossness, noticeableness, outrageousness, egregiousness, flagrance, flagrantness, glaringness