anarchic
Americanadjective
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of, like, or tending to anarchy.
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advocating anarchy.
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not regulated by law; lawless.
Anarchic bands pillaged the countryside.
Other Word Forms
- anarchically adverb
- hyperanarchic adjective
- nonanarchic adjective
- nonanarchical adjective
- nonanarchically adverb
- proanarchic adjective
- unanarchic adjective
Etymology
Origin of anarchic
First recorded in 1780–90; either from French anarchique or anarch(y) + -ic
Example Sentences
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A product of an anarchic group called the Cacophony Society, SantaCon has come to be seen by many as an annoying pub crawl.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025
Due to its liberating and anarchic nature, there is a consensus that Burning Man symbolizes the legacy of the socially libertarian spirit of the 1960s counterculture.
From Salon • Oct. 27, 2025
Berlin became a pumping techno and rave hub in the years following the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, as an anarchic counterculture moved into abandoned industrial sites to create music, dance and art spaces.
From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025
It's an anarchic song, full of two-bar guitar solos and ostentatious drum fills.
From BBC • Sep. 10, 2025
Under that nation’s politics and parades and passions runs an old darkness, passive, anarchic, silent, the fecund darkness of the Handdara.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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