Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, like, or supporting anarchy.
- adjective Likely to produce or result in anarchy.
- adjective Lacking order or control.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, proceeding from, or dictated by anarchy; without rule or government; in confusion. An equivalent form is anarchical.
- Relating or pertaining to the theory of society called anarchy; founded on anarchy or anarchism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to anarchy; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to, supporting, or likely to cause
anarchy . - adjective
Chaotic , without law or order.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective without law or control
Etymologies
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Examples
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East, perhaps from the core hidden in anarchic theories of the resolution of good and evil in a higher unity.
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She was referring to the anarchic Horn of Africa country where the U.N. says 250,000 still live in famine conditions due to drought and conflict and a total of 4 million need aid.
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4 = The fight to extend democracy to peoples remaining under tyranny or in anarchic failed states
Archive 2004-09-26 Laban 2004
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Police intervened Tuesday at the Buduburam camp, near Accra, because of what Nana Obiri Boahene, a minister of state at the interior ministry, described as anarchic conditions.
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This condition is known as anarchic hand: people experience a conflict between their declared will and the action of one of their hands.
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This condition is known as anarchic hand: people experience a conflict between their declared will and the action of one of their hands.
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He said the situation at schools could be described as anarchic with pupils arriving throughout the course of the morning.
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The organization of an army of workers and peasants also seemed very difficult to a people who had been called anarchic and without sense of order by their detractors.
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A film based on his autobiography, Hooleygan: Music, Mayhem, Good Vibrations - described as "anarchic, dishevelled and hugely entertaining" - is scheduled to begin production later this year.
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In the 1990s, so-called anarchic logging was the problem.
Harper's Magazine 2009
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