anarchic
UK/əˈnɑː.kɪk//əˈnɑɹ.kɪk/
anarchic adjective: relating to, supporting, or likely to cause anarchy.
Adjective
anarchic (comparative more anarchic, superlative most anarchic)
- Relating to, supporting, or likely to cause anarchy.
- Chaotic, without law or order.
- Distinctions must be drawn here: love is anarchic, marriage is not.1993, Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil, page 41
- The first of these is the potential for Central and Eastern Europe to become a region of unfettered and anarchic free market capitalism.1998, Andrew Herod, Susan M. Roberts, An Unruly World?: Globalization, Governance, and Geography, page 174
- Free-spirited; not bound by the rigors or expectations of society.
- Lying is just another word for language at its most anarchic, free from any allegiance, or debt, to things as they are.1979 April 28, Gerry McNamara, “Life for Art's Sake”, in Gay Community News, page 11
- Frazer comments on this tendency of his text not only directly, in the preface already quoted, but also indirectly, by taking as one of his principal themes various saturnalian festivals that, in their glorification of "general license, during which the ordinary restraints of society are thrown...1995, Elazar Barkan, Ronald Bush, Prehistories of the Future, page 150
anarchic meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam
anarchic in Hindi
- anarchic, lawless
- शासनहीन śāsanhīn
- anarchic, anarchical
- अराजक arājak
anarchic in Tamil
- அரசழிந்த, குழப்பமான, சட்ட ஒழுங்கற்ற
anarchic in Malayalam
- chaotic, lawless, without law and order
- അരാജക, അരാജകാവസ്ഥയായ, നിർന്നാഥ, നിയമവാഴ്ചയില്ലാത്ത, അരാജകത്വമുള്ള, നിയമരഹിതമായ
Examples of anarchic in a sentence
- The Uganda Police Force described the planned protests as “potentially anarchic” in a statement on Monday, warning it “shall not tolerate disorderly conduct.”2024 July 22, Nimi Princewill, “Uganda’s President Museveni warns citizens they are ‘playing with fire’ over planned protests”, in CNN...
- Revisiting The Wild Wigglers signified how anarchic, original and formative this work had been and how it informed and shaped our subsequent choreographic and performative language.2006, Liz Aggiss, “Reconstruction: or why you can never step into the same river twice”, in Liz Aggiss, Billy Cowie, editor, Anarchic...
- Istanbul was also a simmering cauldron of urban energy: loud, anarchic and quirky as hell.2014 July 21, Ivan Watson, “Loud, anarchic, quirky: My love affair with Istanbul”, in CNN, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2025:
Synonyms of anarchic
Forms of anarchic
| comparative | more anarchic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most anarchic |
Origin of anarchic
From anarchy + -ic.
Words formed from anarchic
Questions about anarchic
- What does anarchic mean?
- Anarchic means relating to, supporting, or likely to cause anarchy.
- What is anarchic in Hindi?
- Anarchic in Hindi is शासनहीन (śāsanhīn), अराजक (arājak). See Anarchic meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use anarchic in a sentence?
- The Uganda Police Force described the planned protests as “potentially anarchic” in a statement on Monday, warning it “shall not tolerate disorderly conduct.”
- What part of speech is anarchic?
- Anarchic is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce anarchic?
- Anarchic is pronounced /əˈnɑː.kɪk/ (UK).
Words near anarchic in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: anarchic (page history and authors); अराजक (Hindi) (page history and authors); anarchic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); anarchic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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