Word Meanings - MISGOVERNMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bad government; want of government. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MISGOVERNMENT)

• Anarchy
• Disorder
• tumult
• rebellion
• riot
• misgovernment
• insubordination
• maladministration
• Misrule
• malversation

Related words: (words related to MISGOVERNMENT)

• INSUBORDINATION
  The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• REBELLION
  Among the Romans rebellion was originally a revolt or open resistance to their government by nations that had been subdued in war. It was a 1. The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes
• MALVERSATION
  Evil conduct; fraudulent practices; misbehavior, corruption, or extortion in office. (more info) fr. L. male ill + versari to move about, to occupy one's self,
• DISORDER
  1. Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder. 2. Neglect of order or system; irregularity. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And
• TUMULTER
  A maker of tumults. He severely punished the tumulters. Milton.
• TUMULTUARILY
  In a tumultuary manner.
• ANARCHY
  1. Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion. Spread anarchy and terror all around. Cowper. 2. Hence, confusion or disorder, in general. There being then . .
• DISORDERLY
  Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house. Syn. -- Irregular; immethodical; confused; tumultuous; inordinate; intemperate; unruly; lawless; vicious. (more info) 1. Not in order; marked by disorder;
• TUMULTUARINESS
  The quality or state of being tumultuary.
• DISORDERED
  1. Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment. 2. Disorderly. Shak. -- Dis*or"dered*ly, adv. -- Dis*or"dered*ness, n.
• MISRULE
  To rule badly; to misgovern.
• MALADMINISTRATION
  Bad administration; bad management of any business, especially of public affairs.
• TUMULTUARY
  1. Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; promiscuous; confused; tumultuous. "A tumultuary conflict." Eikon Basilike. A tumultuary attack of the Celtic peasantry. Macaulay. Sudden flight or tumultuary skirmish. De Quincey. 2. Restless;
• TUMULTUATION
  Irregular or disorderly movement; commotion; as, the tumultuation of the parts of a fluid. Boyle.
• TUMULTUOUS
  1. Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent. The flight became wild and tumultuous. Macaulay. 2. Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting. 3. Agitated, as with
• TUMULT
  1. The commotion or agitation of a multitude, usually accompanied with great noise, uproar, and confusion of voices; hurly-burly; noisy confusion. What meaneth the noise of this tumult 1 Sam. iv. 14. Till in loud tumult all the Greeks arose. Pope.
• DISORDERLINESS
  The state of being disorderly.
• TUMULTUATE
  To make a tumult. "He will murmur and tumultuate." South.