anarchical

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   lacking effective government, authority, or orderly control

   After the administration collapsed, the province entered an anarchical period.

2. 2
   adj

   relating to anarchy or the political rejection of coercive government

   The pamphlet was condemned for its anarchical arguments against centralized rule.

From anarchy + -ical, ultimately from Greek anarkhia, 'lack of a ruler,' built from an- ('without') + arkhos ('ruler'). Anarchical is an older, less common counterpart of anarchic.

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