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View synonyms for dystopia

dystopia

[ dis-toh-pee-uh ]

noun

  1. a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.


dystopia

/ dɪsˈtəʊpɪə /

noun

  1. 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·topi·an adjective
  • dys·topi·an·ism noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of dystopia1

First recorded in 1865–70; dys- + (U)topia

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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.

Five years into the Obama presidency, we are further from the Great Recession but also closer to a new normal—economic dystopia.

Or we hear on MSNBC that the Republicans are ideologically blind and fanatical in their pursuit of a Darwinian dystopia.

Lurking not far beneath the prettiness lies the real Pagford—a dystopia that would take a wizard to set right.

In Tampa, the equivalent trip took you through an Eraserhead dystopia of underpasses and asphalt plains.

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