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anarchistic

anarchistic

2 9.1
Supporting no government and opposing other forms of authority
  • adjective
  • /ˌæn.ɑːrˈkɪs.tɪk/
translation icon : anarquista
  • By the way, some people criticized the notion "Say whatever you want to say, do whatever you want to do" as anarchistic.
  • seem anarchistic

How do you avoid normlessness and meaninglessness within an anarchistic society?

Examples

  • Islam can also be egalitarian or even anarchistic.

    Blog text (14)
  • How do you avoid normlessness and meaninglessness within an anarchistic society?

  • Individualism, ultimately anarchistic, has been as much in control in our religion as in industry.

    Academic text (2017)
  • The state bureaucracy looked for allies who could reintroduce "discipline" and help arrest anarchistic developments.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Cooperatives are at once anarchistic, communitarian, and even, from some points of view, quasi-capitalistic.

    Blog text (21)
  • Responding to Utopian descriptions of a "new world order," they increasingly defended a view of international relations as unpredictable and anarchistic.

    Academic text (2000)
  • They should not be appropriated by de Soto or any other advocate of either unfettered market forces or anarchistic democratic processes.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Rather, Lerner's poems seem anarchistic, almost Dionysian; they manifest the centrifugal whirlwind of modernity from inside.

    Academic text (2010)
  • The activist organized a protest to express their anarchistic beliefs against government control.

  • Many artists and writers embrace anarchistic ideas, advocating for freedom from traditional authority.

Synonyms

anarchic
vsanarchistic
5 7.4

A situation with no order or control and no leaders

expresses support for politically removing authority rather than mere disorder
anarchical
vsanarchistic
1 8.6

Having no order or control, often without government

supports the political idea of removing authority and government
insurrectionary
vsanarchistic
1 9.9

Something that encourages people to rise against the government

supports the idea of removing authority rather than focusing on revolt acts
antistatist
vsanarchistic
9.9

Not supporting strong government control

takes a broader ideological stance favoring absence of authority and government
antiauthoritarian
vsanarchistic
8.2

Not accepting strict control by people in charge

opposes authority broadly to promote absence of government or rule
insurrectional
vsanarchistic
9.9

Supporting or joining a revolt against the government

advocates absence of government as a political belief not only revolt

Antonyms

3.0

People who live under a ruler or government

How Anarchic

chaotic
116 4.7
anarchistic
2 9.1

Surface Forms

anarchistic positive

Morphology

anarchistic = anarchist (transparent) = anarchist + ic

Formed by adding the adjective-forming suffix '-ic' to 'anarchist'; the meaning is directly related to supporting or relating to anarchism.

Etymology

Anarchistic comes from the parts an- meaning 'without' and arch meaning 'ruler', the same arch you see in monarch. So being anarchistic means supporting no rulers or no government.