| Main Entry: | disorder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | social commotion; mental confusion |
Synonyms: |
agitation, anarchism, anarchy, brawl, bustle, chaos, clamor, complication, convulsion, discombobulation, discord, disorganization, distemper, disturbance, dither, entanglement, fight, flap, fracas, fuss, hubbub, hullabaloo*, imbroglio, insurrection, lawlessness, mayhem, misrule, mob rule, quarrel, rebellion, reign of terror, revolution, riot, rioting, ruckus, rumpus, static, strike, terrorism, tizzy, trouble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, unruliness, uproar |
Antonyms: |
health |
| Main Entry: | murder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | killing |
Synonyms: |
annihilation, assassination, blood, bloodshed, butchery, carnage, crime, death, destruction, dispatching, felony, foul play, hit*, homicide, knifing, liquidation, lynching, manslaughter, massacre, off*, offing, one-way ticket, rub out, shooting, slaying, taking out, terrorism, the business, the works |
| Notes: | the general term for the killing of a person by another is homicide; murder is either the intentional killing or malicious killing of another; manslaughter is the unintentional, accidental killing of another through carelessness |
| Main Entry: | nihilism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | refusal to believe |
Synonyms: |
abnegation, agnosticism, anarchy, atheism, denial, disbelief, disorder, lawlessness, mob rule, nonbelief, rejection, renunciation, repudiation, skepticism, terrorism |
Antonyms: |
belief, faith, obedience, optimism |
| Main Entry: | tyranny |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dictatorship |
Synonyms: |
absolutism, authoritarianism, autocracy, coercion, cruelty, despotism, domination, fascism, high-handedness, imperiousness, monocracy, oligarchy, oppression, peremptoriness, reign of terror, severity, terrorism, totalitarianism, totality, unreasonableness |
Antonyms: |
democracy |
| Main Entry: | violence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme force, intensity |
Synonyms: |
abandon, acuteness, assault, attack, bestiality, bloodshed, blowup, brutality, brute force, clash, coercion, compulsion, confusion, constraint, cruelty, destructiveness, disorder, disturbance, duress, ferocity, fervor, fierceness, fighting, flap, foul play, frenzy, fury, fuss, harshness, murderousness, onslaught, passion, power, raging, rampage, roughness, ruckus, rumble, savagery, severity, sharpness, storm, storminess, struggle, terrorism, tumult, turbulence, uproar, vehemence, wildness |
Antonyms: |
passivity, peace, peacefulness |
| Main Entry: | reign of terror |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of suppression |
Synonyms: |
French Revolution, brutal suppression, mob rule, terrorism |
| Main Entry: | scare tactics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | methods used to scare |
Synonyms: |
ambush, arm-twisting, bullying, coercion, duress, force, intimidation, persuasion, pressure, reign of terror, strong-arm tactics, terrorism, terrorization, threat |
| Main Entry: | lawlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anarchy |
Synonyms: |
chaos, confusion, disorder, irresponsibility, terrorism |
| Main Entry: | topsy-turviness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disorder |
Synonyms: |
agitation, anarchism, anarchy, brawl, bustle, chaos, clamor, clutter, complication, confusedness, confusion, convulsion, derangement, disarrangement, disarray, discombobulation, discord, disorderedness, disorderliness, disorganization, distemper, disturbance, dither, entanglement, fight, flap, fracas, fuss*, hubbub, hullabaloo*, imbroglio, insurrection, jumble, lawlessness, mayhem, mess*, misrule, mix-up, mob rule, muddle, muss, quarrel, rebellion, reign of terror, revolution, riot, rioting, ruckus*, rumpus, scramble, static*, strike, terrorism, tizzy, trouble, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, unruliness, uproar |
| Main Entry: | lawlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
actionable, arbitrary, contraband, despotic, despotical, exlegal, exlex, extrajudicial, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, informal, infract, injudicial, irresponsible, lawless, not allowed, nothous, null and void, prohibited, spurious, summary, unaccountable, unallowed, unanswerable, unauthorized, unchartered, unconstitutional, undue, unlawful, unofficial, unsanctioned, unwarrantable, unwarranted, usurped, violating
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