dystopia
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8.2
- noun
- /dɪsˈtoʊpiə/
- Literature
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distopía
- Yet Huxley viewed this pill-popping of society as a dystopia, one that replaced self-knowledge and self-awareness with mindless bliss.
This is no awkward dystopia where all are forced to conform.
- This is no awkward dystopia where all are forced to conform.
- The subheading is surviving and thriving in our woke dystopia and it's out today.
- This time it is the Starship Enterprise from a dystopia to a utopia.
- And this one kind of is like a futuristic sci-fi dystopia kind of which sounds really interesting.
- He was taking us towards this AI dystopia.
- I just had, you've all know a Harare in here and he's, you know, sounding the alarm to make sure that we're not tiptoeing into some kind of nightmare dystopia.
- But yeah, I mean, you know, it's just this is this, this is just dystopia.
Examples
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To paraphrase an old Onion article: do you want the government dystopia or the corporate dystopia for the next four years?
Blog text (21) -
I like to see how societies rebuild after something causes the world to become a dystopia.
Blog text (29) -
But few would go so far as to say that we live in a global dystopia.
Blog text (17) -
And, and it feels like we're still living in dystopia and it feels inevitable as well, I think to me.
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In the Star Wars universe, which is a dystopia, very few things line up perfectly.
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At the time it came out, it seemed that the dystopia it portrayed was merely one of science fiction.
Academic text (2008) -
And so China has done a great job of perfecting this digital dystopia that you've described.
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Writing his dissent, Justice Thurgood Marshall describes a dystopia that sounds all too familiar:
Academic text (2018) -
In the novel, the author depicts a dystopia where the government controls every aspect of life.
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The film presents a chilling vision of a future dystopia plagued by inequality and oppression.
Synonyms
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7.4
A society where people are controlled and have few personal freedoms
Antonyms
How Dystopian
- Literature
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8.2
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7.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
dystopia = utopia (transparent) = dys + topia
Formed by a productive negative prefix 'dys-' + the combining element '-topia' (as in 'utopia'), so the meaning 'bad/place' → 'bad place' is directly inferable.
Etymology
Dystopia comes from Greek parts dys- meaning 'bad' and -topia from topos meaning 'place', and it is the opposite of utopia ('good place'). So a dystopia is an imagined 'bad place' or society where life is very bad.