graded

Academic Word List, sublist 7.

About 3.23 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb simple past and past participle of grade
2. adjective Having been smoothed by a grader.

   a graded road

3. adjective Forming a series decreasing or increasing in intensity of a given quality.

Similar words

graveled stratified improved hierarchical hierarchic hierarchal ranked growing incremental gradual

Often followed by

and according in by as on school series schools

Word family

grade grades grading