Anarchical (Adjective)
Meaning
Without law or control; "the system is economically inefficient and politically anarchic".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- In the absence of a centralized government, the region descended into anarchical chaos.
- The economic system in the country was weakened by a lack of effective regulation, resulting in anarchical market conditions.
- Critics argued that the government's decision to withdraw from the international treaty would create anarchical chaos worldwide.
- It didn't seem contradictory, simultaneously following rules to respect social protocol, and existing in an anarchical state in nature.
- Hobbes famously posited in Leviathan that human lives without the strictures of society would be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short, in an anarchical, warlike existence.