Antonyms for anarchic

Grammar : Adj

Spell : an-ahr-kik

Phonetic Transcription : ænˈɑr kɪk

Definition of anarchic

Origin : 1755, "chaotic, without order or rule," from Greek anarkhos "without head or chief" (see anarchy) + -ic. Differentiated from anarchistic (1845) which tends to refer to the political philosophy of anarchism. An older word in this sense was anarchical (1590s). Anarchial is from 1710; Landor used anarchal (1824).

As in inflammatory : adj instigative, angering
As in lawless : adj reckless, ungoverned
As in riotous : adj chaotic, wild
As in turbulent : adj rebellious, unmanageable
As in nihilistic : adj insurgent
As in chaotic : adj utterly confused
As in higgledy-piggledy : adj confused
As in confused : adj mixed up, disordered

Example sentences :

It was supposed to be democratic, but it sometimes bordered on the anarchic.
Extract from : « The Penal Cluster » by Ivar Jorgensen (AKA Randall Garrett)

Those were anarchic broadcasts with no discernible regularity.
Extract from : « After the Rain » by Sam Vaknin

If my anarchic friends will not have rules, they will have rulers.
Extract from : « A Chesterton Calendar » by G. K. Chesterton

This is true only where "anarchy" is not being created by anarchic actions.
Extract from : « Our Revolution » by Leon Trotzky

Law can as little be anarchic as anarchy can be an institute of law.
Extract from : « The Future of International Law » by Lassa Oppenheim

If my anarchic friends will not have rules—they will have rulers.
Extract from : « What's Wrong With The World » by G.K. Chesterton

But there must have been something in me that answered to the nerves in all these anarchic men.
Extract from : « The Man Who Was Thursday » by G. K. Chesterton

"Anarchy plus a street-constable:" that also is anarchic to me, and other than quite lovely!
Extract from : « Latter-Day Pamphlets » by Thomas Carlyle

The half-castes, in particular, rage at our “color line” and see in the United States the Nemesis of their anarchic misrule.
Extract from : « The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy » by Theodore Lothrop Stoddard

The event was salutary, like life instead of death, to anarchic Germany; and did eminent honor to Friedrich's judgment in men.
Extract from : « History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol, II. (of XXI.) » by Thomas Carlyle

Synonyms for anarchic

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