an·ar·chism

(ăn′ər-kĭz′əm)

1. The theory or doctrine that all forms of government are oppressive and undesirable and should be abolished.

2. Active resistance and terrorism against the state, as used by some anarchists.

3. Rejection of all forms of coercive control and authority: "He was inclined to anarchism; he hated system and organization and uniformity" (Bertrand Russell).

an′ar·chist (-kĭst) n.

an′ar·chis′tic (-kĭs′tĭk) adj.

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anarchist

(ˈænəkɪst)

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a person who advocates the abolition of government and a social system based on voluntary cooperation

2. a person who causes disorder or upheaval

ˌanarˈchistic adj

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an•ar•chist

(ˈæn ər kɪst)

n.

1. a person who advocates or believes in anarchy or anarchism.

2. a person who seeks to overturn by violence all constituted forms and institutions of society and government, with no purpose of establishing any other system of order.

3. a person who promotes disorder or excites revolt against any established rule, law, or custom.

[1670–80]

an`ar•chis′tic, adj.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

anarchist - an advocate of anarchism

syndicalist, nihilist

radical - a person who has radical ideas or opinions

anarchist

noun revolutionary, rebel, terrorist, insurgent, nihilist a well-known anarchist poet

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Translations

الفَوْضَويثَائِر عَلى الحُكْم

anarchista

anarkist

Anarchist

αναρχικός

anarquista

anarkisti

anarchiste libertaire anarchique

anarhistanarhistkinja

anarchistafelforgató elem

stjórnleysingi

anarchico

anarchist nihilist

anarkist

anarhisrăanarhistnihilist

анархистский

anarchista

anarşist

企图以暴力推翻政府者无政府主义者

anarchist

[ˈænəkɪst]

A. N → anarquista mf

B. ADJ → anarquista

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

anarchist

[ˈænə^rkɪst]

adj [group, movement, leader] → anarchiste

n → anarchiste mf

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anarchist

n → Anarchist(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

anarchist

[ˈænəkɪst] n & adj → anarchico/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

anarchy

(ˈӕnəki) noun

1. the absence or failure of government. Total anarchy followed the defeat of the government.

2. disorder and confusion.

ˈanarchist noun

1. a person who believes that governments are unnecessary or undesirable.

2. a person who tries to overturn the government by violence.

ˈanarchism noun

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AN Anarchist Orator who had been struck in the face with a Dead Cat by some Respector of Law to him unknown, had the Dead Cat arrested and taken before a Magistrate.

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There were cries of "Sedition!" and a great, rotund New York member began shouting "Anarchist!" at Ernest.

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But in one place he dealt with, and I quote his words, "the industrial and social revolution that is taking place in society." A reporter present seized upon the word "revolution," divorced it from the text, and wrote a garbled account that made Emil Gluck appear an anarchist. At once, "Professor Gluck, anarchist," flamed over the wires and was appropriately "featured" in all the newspapers in the land.

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You - a desperate socialist or anarchist - which is it?"

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Pavel, the tall one, was said to be an anarchist; since he had no means of imparting his opinions, probably his wild gesticulations and his generally excited and rebellious manner gave rise to this supposition.

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Nietzsche, the supposed anarchist, here plainly disclaims all relationship whatever to anarchy, for he shows us that only by bearing the burdens of the existing law and submitting to it patiently, as the camel submits to being laden, does the free spirit acquire that ascendancy over tradition which enables him to meet and master the dragon "Thou shalt,"--the dragon with the values of a thousand years glittering on its scales.

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Polyglot, of unknown parentage, of indefinite nationality, anarchist, with a pedantic and ferocious temperament, and an amazingly inflammatory capacity for invective, he was a power in the background, this violent pamphleteer clamouring for revolutionary justice, this Julius Laspara, editor of the Living Word , confidant of conspirators, inditer of sanguinary menaces and manifestos, suspected of being in the secret of every plot.

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This agitator, law-breaker, firebrand, anarchist! He, the sovereign lord and master of a world which grinds the bodies and souls of human beings into dollars--if he could come into the world this day and see the things that men have made in his name, would it not blast his soul with horror?

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"The first Anarchist," Maud laughed, rising and preparing to withdraw to her state-room.

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And there were editorials written in which he was called an enemy of society, possessed of the manners and culture of a caveman, a fomenter of wasteful business troubles, the destroyer of the city's prosperity in commerce and trade, an anarchist of dire menace; and one editorial gravely recommended that hanging would be a lesson to him and his ilk, and concluded with the fervent hope that some day his big motor-car would smash up and smash him with it.

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And clear across to the Atlantic, the Junta in touch with them all and all of them needing guns, mere adventurers, soldiers of fortune, bandits, disgruntled American union men, socialists, anarchists, rough-necks, Mexican exiles, peons escaped from bondage, whipped miners from the bull-pens of Coeur d'Alene and Colorado who desired only the more vindictively to fight--all the flotsam and jetsam of wild spirits from the madly complicated modern world.

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"No, we are not anarchists but socialists." When the reporter pointed out to him that there seemed little difference between the two schools, Martin had shrugged his shoulders in silent affirmation.

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