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anarchy
[ an-er-kee ]
noun
- a state of society without government or law.
- political and social disorder due to the absence of governmental control:
The death of the king was followed by a year of anarchy.
Synonyms: lawlessness, turmoil, disruption
- lack of obedience to an authority; insubordination:
the anarchy of his rebellious teenage years.
- confusion and disorder:
Intellectual and moral anarchy followed his loss of faith.
It was impossible to find the book I was looking for in the anarchy of his bookshelves.
Synonyms: disintegration, turbulence, disorganization, license, disruption, chaos
anarchy
/ ˈænəkɪ; ænˈɑːkɪk /
noun
- general lawlessness and disorder, esp when thought to result from an absence or failure of government
- the absence or lack of government
- the absence of any guiding or uniting principle; disorder; chaos
- the theory or practice of political anarchism
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Derived Forms
- anarchic, adjective
- anˈarchically, adverb
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Other Words From
- hyper·anar·chy noun
- pro·anar·chy adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of anarchy1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of anarchy1
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Example Sentences
Letting humans use their common sense is not an invitation to anarchy.
I had the opportunity to appear on the popular Sons of Anarchy series in their final season.
There are quite enough sons of anarchy in Syria and Iraq already.
And this is the prevailing attitude that white St. Louis fears the most: an all out riot, anarchy, lawlessness, disorder.
The notion of anarchy so appalled the conservative Reagan, he came out against Briggs, and it was defeated.
They were sure that the white troops in Meerut would soon arrive and put an end to the prevalent anarchy.
A remnant of the long parliament assembled during the anarchy, and has been termed the rump.
Mr. Hutchinson was doubtless temperamentally less inclined to fear tyranny than anarchy.
Such a course would tend only to bloody and interminable anarchy.
The Republic had proved an utter failure, and France was but a tempest-tossed ocean of anarchy.
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