utopian
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7.9
- adjective
- /juˈtoʊpiən/
:
utópico
- Many people believe that a utopian society would eliminate all forms of inequality and suffering.
- utopian vision
- utopian movements
- utopian ideology
Shouldn't all writing be utopian but also plausible?
- Shouldn't all writing be utopian but also plausible?
- Anyway, Catholicism is a utopian venture in a certain sense.
- It was a string of very vague utopian promises.
- It's like kind of the dystopian slash utopian kind of book.
- I mean, I think Marx's ideas about how to form the socialist society are completely utopian and and unachievable.
- The untold number of bodies that stacked up as a result of utopian ideas run amok is absolutely staggering.
- For example, utopian ideas of Marx or utopian ideas, you could say dystopian ideas of Hitler.
- I, I've never heard it put in that way before, because it's a very utopian outlook on why we should know about aliens.
- And and being a little more, a little less utopian about the issue of the trade-offs is, is, I think really necessary.
- It feels like the centralized control by governments of currencies limiting somehow maybe my naive utopian view of the world.
Examples
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Today, this dining table recalls the facility's controversial origins as the utopian dream that was too good to be true.
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One may argue against a goal on the grounds that it is utopian or unrealizable.
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So that was like my utopian ideal for how this would work.
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But they are also potentially more radical, even utopian, in a good way.
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If you're waiting on that perfect person or that perfect utopian moment to come, it's not.
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We refer to these movements and others like them as grounded utopian movements.
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The result is a near-utopian view of economic growth with little consideration of any costs.
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But part of, I mean, again, as a historian, I'm, I'm very suspicious of utopian thinking.
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But at the same time, critics say Barkley was a Utopian dreamer.
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In their most energetic forms, monotheisms become utopian, portraying a single, absolute way to live.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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4.0
Not having a sensible idea of what can be done in real life
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6.0
Imaginative but not true or practical
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9.6
A person who has very unrealistic plans that are unlikely to work
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6.9
Being too hopeful and not seeing real problems
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6.7
Made to seem perfect or much better than it really is
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9.9
Very optimistic in a way that ignores real problems
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8.5
Impossible to do or make real
Having ideas about a perfect society that are not realistic
Having strong beliefs about how people should behave to make the world better
Not sensible or likely to happen
Being very hopeful even when things seem bad
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A belief that people can live equally by forming ideal communities and cooperating without revolution
How Idealistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word utopian comes from utopia, the title used by the writer Thomas More for an imagined perfect island; the Greek parts ou- and topos mean 'no' and 'place', so utopia literally means 'no place'. That's why calling an idea utopian says it is a beautiful, perfect plan that probably does not exist in real life.