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View synonyms for dystopia
dystopia
[ dis-toh-pee-uh ]
noun
- a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
dystopia
/ dɪsˈtəʊpɪə /
noun
- an imaginary place where everything is as bad as it can be
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Derived Forms
- dysˈtopian, adjectivenoun
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Other Words From
- dys·topi·an adjective
- dys·topi·an·ism noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dystopia1
C19 (coined by John Stuart Mill ): from dys- + Utopia
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Example Sentences
Divergent is set in a dystopia and provides a pretty bleak portrait of our future.
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Five years into the Obama presidency, we are further from the Great Recession but also closer to a new normal—economic dystopia.
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Or we hear on MSNBC that the Republicans are ideologically blind and fanatical in their pursuit of a Darwinian dystopia.
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Lurking not far beneath the prettiness lies the real Pagford—a dystopia that would take a wizard to set right.
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In Tampa, the equivalent trip took you through an Eraserhead dystopia of underpasses and asphalt plains.
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