anarchist

[ an-er-kist ]

noun

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 in the place of that destroyed.
3. a person who promotes disorder or excites revolt against any established rule, law, or custom.

anarchist

/ ˈænəkɪst /

noun

1. a person who advocates the abolition of government and a social system based on voluntary cooperation
2. a person who causes disorder or upheaval

Derived Forms

• ˌanarˈchistic, adjective

Other Words From

• anar·chistic adjective
• nonan·ar·chistic adjective
• pseudo·anar·chistic adjective
• semi·anar·chist noun
• semi·anar·chistic adjective
• unan·ar·chistic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of anarchist¹

First recorded in 1670–80; anarch(y) + -ist

Example Sentences

The other was tagged with an A in a circle, an anarchist symbol.

From The Daily Beast

First, there’s a group of anarchists who thrived in the chaos of the post-Snap years and want to return to that state of the world.

From Time

Playing a young anarchist, Page had a chance to cut his hair again.

From Time

The same way I didn’t get how the anarchists who were coming there claiming to be Trumpettes and love the police then fought the police.

From Washington Post

One problem in their investigation, however, is that many of the would-be anarchists are erasing themselves online, according to Army veteran Jeff Bardin of private intelligence firm Treadstone 71.

From Time

The group seems to blend “black bloc” anarchist street violence with social-media campaigns.

From The Daily Beast

This is an inverse Pietà, and something of a sexual anarchist; she ardently refuses to be oriented in an orientation.

From The Daily Beast

Police sources informed  Reforma that both action are considered “high risk” and ripe for “anarchist infiltration.”

From The Daily Beast

But the bands that I was initially attracted to in punk rock were anarchist punk bands.

From The Daily Beast

The senator from Texas and the anarchist busker from New York City have a lot more in common than you might expect.

From The Daily Beast

So congress has excluded not only diseased, criminal, pauper and anarchist immigrants, but also contract and Chinese laborers.

From Project Gutenberg

This first act of voluntary Anarchist sacrifice will make the workingmen think deeply.

From Project Gutenberg

Such a development of affairs would have greatly advanced the Anarchist propaganda.

From Project Gutenberg

In the first place, I am an Anarchist: I do not believe in man-made law, designed to enslave and oppress humanity.

From Project Gutenberg

Strikes and labour riots now and then break out, and the Spanish anarchist is not unknown.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• agitator
• anarch
• revolutionary