Definition of Anarchic

1. Adjective. Without law or control. "The system is economically inefficient and politically anarchic"

Exact synonyms: Anarchical, Lawless
Similar to: Uncontrolled
Derivative terms: Anarchy, Lawlessness

Definition of Anarchic

1. a. Pertaining to anarchy; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.

Definition of Anarchic

1. Adjective. Relating to, supporting, or likely to cause anarchy. ¹

2. Adjective. Chaotic, without law or order. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Anarchic

1. anarchy [adj] - See also: anarchy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anarchic

anapophysis
anaporate
anapsid
anapsid reptile
anapsids
anaptic
anaptotic
anaptychi
anaptychus
anaptyxes
anaptyxis
anapæst
anapæsts
anarch
anarchal
anarchic (current term)
anarchical
anarchically
anarchies
anarchism
anarchisms
anarchist
anarchistic
anarchistically
anarchists
anarchize
anarchized
anarchizes
anarchizing
anarcho-

Literary usage of Anarchic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1884)
"anarchic SOCIALISM. •' Until Kings are Philosophers or Philosophers Kings cities will never cease from ill."—Jewett's Plato. SOCIALISM is widespread and ..."

2. Lancaster and York: A Century of English History (A.D. 1399-1485) by James Henry Ramsay (1892)
"For Chicheley and All Souls College, see below, p. 56. a Proceedings, 358-263. EZ CHAP. IV. M43- His instructions. anarchic state of ..."

3. The Foundations of England; Or, Twelve Centuries of British History (B.C. 55 by James Henry Ramsay (1898)
"... Channel in the old Wicking anarchic With all the destruction and spoliation of the year ; with state of the numberless men of high and low degree turned ..."

4. The Roman Theocracy and the Republic, 1846-1849 by Robert Matteson Johnston (1901)
"... anarchic conditions — Proclamation convoking the electors—Papal rejoinder—Gioberti negotiates— Affairs of Tuscany — Leopold and the Giovane Italia ..."

5. History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages by Ferdinand Adolf Gregorovius (1900)
"... 1484—H1s CHILDREN—CONSPIRACY OF THE BARONS IN NAPLES—ROBERT SANSEVERINO, PAPAL CAPTAIN-GENERAL—WAR WITH NAPLES— PEACE, AUGUST 1486—anarchic CONDITION OF ..."

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