Dystopia

Quick meaning: Dystopia is a noun meaning A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living or severe censorship, oppression, etc.

Meaning

A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living or severe censorship, oppression, etc.

More Meanings

1. (pathology) Anatomical tissue that is not found in its usual place.

Example Sentences

Recollections tattooed with stiletto reasons and a sorrowful slant of light admitting of dystopiae already petrified in progress.

Like many dystopiae, it ends up with the lead characters wandering into a sylvan wilderness (an English wood) away from the nasty city.

Its function is to legitimate that particular form of moral tribalism based on the “pedagogy of hatred” that [Evgeny] Zamiatin and [George] Orwell described so brilliantly in their dystopiae.

2. FEAR OF TECHNOLOGY/THE BOMB/THE FUTURE—Progress run amok, either in the form of cybernetic creatures that turn against their masters, or future dystopiae in which society is controlled by technology.

Word Forms

• dystopias
• dystopiae

Synonyms for dystopia

Depending on context, synonyms include cacotopia, anti-utopia, ectopia, ectopy, heterotopia, malposition.

Antonyms for dystopia

Common opposites include utopia.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include canthal, dystopianism, utopianism, anarchotopia, utopianization, utopian.

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