RANKED Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

ranked

verb

past tense of rank

as in was

to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classes my favorite pitcher ranks first in the league for number of consecutive outs

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as in classified

to arrange or assign according to type most critics would rank him among our best actors

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Recent Examples of ranked In one deployment, comment engagement increased twelvefold while more than 21,000 followers were identified and ranked by purchase likelihood. — Gary Drenik, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026 Cape Verde, by contrast, is ranked 64th in the world by FIFA, has a 40-year-old goalkeeper and is the only team to reach the round of 32 without winning a match. — Mark Hodge, NBC news, 3 July 2026 Costco, Stop & Shop, Walmart, Whole Foods and Wegmans also ranked among the top performers, according to Consumer Reports. — Kelly McCarthy, ABC News, 25 June 2026 His next assignment appeared far more straightforward — up against Britain’s Arthur Fery, a man ranked more than 100 places below Shelton and with only one Grand Slam match win to his name before this week. — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 2 July 2026 MoneyLion ranked the nation's 50 most affluent suburbs by household income, as measured in the 2024 American Community Survey. — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 4 July 2026 Sherman’s March, which won the Grand Jury prize at the 1986 Sundance Film Festival, was ranked as one of the highest-grossing documentary films of all time until the mid-1990s. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 3 July 2026 According to a new report that tracks pedestrian deaths across the nation, the Miami metro area, which includes Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, ranked as the 17th most dangerous metropolitan area for pedestrians. — Amaia Gavica, Miami Herald, 25 June 2026 As one of the darkest spots in the lower 48, Grand Staircase-Escalante is also a mecca for stargazers, with much of its acreage ranked as Bortle Class 1—meaning that on clear nights the Milky Way is bright enough to cast noticeable shadows and even appears to have three dimensions. — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 25 June 2026

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Verb

There was a casual feel in Memorial Auditorium in the hour before game time, as children kicked a ball around on the auditorium’s sloping floor.

— Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2026
There was the majestic no-doubter that landed more than halfway up the left-field bleachers, a majestic blast that evoked memories of Andrés Galarraga.

— Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 7 July 2026

Definition of was

Verb

Even in Caracas, where only five buildings collapsed, Rodríguez said at least 30 additional structures have already been classified as unsafe.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026
Royalties and license fees are classified as ordinary income under the tax code, taxed at the same rates as wages, not the preferential long-term capital gains rates that apply to appreciated assets held over a year.

— Shehan Chandrasekera, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

Definition of classified

Verb

Each of our squirrel-proof bird feeder picks is top rated on Amazon, and our list includes popular brands like Brome, Kingsyard, and Perky-Pet.

— Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 July 2026
Combined output is rated at 1,250 hp (932 kW) and 691 lb-ft (937 Nm) of torque.

— Bradley Iger, ArsTechnica, 6 July 2026

Definition of rated

Verb

Crews have been seen unloading equipment from trucks this week — much of it covered or obscured — and barricades have been placed near the perimeter of the arena.

— Meriam Bouarrouj, NBC news, 4 July 2026
An employee with the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, has been placed under administrative leave after being arrested for allegedly driving under the influence.

— Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 4 July 2026

Definition of placed

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The network has relegated the live women’s event to ESPN+ and ESPN Unlimited, its direct-to-consumer subscription service that’s available through some TV providers.

— Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 4 July 2026
Using this approach, the SynMax system, called Theia, enables AI to perform tasks previously relegated to intelligence analysts.

— Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

Definition of relegated

Verb

On a recent afternoon outside the temple in central Kerala, Raman stood motionless as two children played, giggling and hugging its trunk.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
By the start of the new millennium, with China only beginning its rise, there stood just a single superpower in the world.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 3 July 2026