English Language & Usage Asked by Roger Sanders on April 17, 2021
I’m struggling to think of a name for something which feels to me like there’s probably a good word for. In a software project, we have a ranking of “importance” of an element. Our scale currently has five levels of importance, which are expressed as follows, from most important to least important:
A case has been raised in which we have a legitimate need to introduce a new level, between the existing “Medium” and “High” levels. My question is simply this:
What is a good term for expressing a priority or level of importance between “High” and “Medium/Normal”?
We should be able to use the term to say “This item is [blank] priority” or “This item has a [blank] priority level” and have it make sense.
The best I’ve been able to come up with is “somewhat high” or “moderately high”, but I’m unsure if there’s a better (perhaps even obvious) word or phrase I’m missing here which would express the concept. It feels to me like there’s a pretty large gap between something that’s of average importance and something of high importance. I’d strongly prefer a single word here, but a compound of two words is acceptable if that’s the best there is. Any suggestions?
I'd say medium-high. You could also add 'very high' or 'higher' above 'high' and bump 'high' down, but that sounds like it would be trouble. You could try heightened, I'd say a 'heightened priority' would likely lie between medium and high, but it's certainly not unambiguous.
Answered by Bug Catcher Nakata on April 17, 2021
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