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anarchic Definition


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anarchy
noun
    1a. Confusion and lack of order because of the failure or breakdown of law and government;
    1b. Confusion and lack of order of any kind.
      Thesaurus: chaos, rebellion, revolution, lawlessness, nihilism, riot, bedlam, confusion, pandemonium, apostasy, insurrection; Antonym: rule, control, order.
    2. The absence of law and government without any implication of ensuing chaos, where the traditional hierarchical systems are replaced by an unwritten agreement that each individual's talents, rights, liberties, etc should be highly valued.
    3. A spurning or disavowal of the importance of authority of any kind.
Derivative: anarchic
adj
    Characterized by confusion and lack of order
      Thesaurus: chaotic, lawless, ungoverned, nihilistic, revolutionary, rebellious, riotous, iconoclastic, disorganized, confused, disordered; Antonym: orderly, submissive.
Derivative: anarchically
adverb
    Etymology: 16c: from Greek anarchia lack of a ruler.



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