Dystopian
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /dɪsˈtoʊ.pi.ən/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Dystopian is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to a dystopia.
Meaning
Of or pertaining to a dystopia.
More Meanings
- Dire; characterized by human suffering or misery.
Example Sentences
The whole city is immersed in a dystopian-looking smog: urban streets in sepia, emptier than usual, bathed in an eerie quiet.
In my book Britain has actually worked out how it wants to leave and the EU is preparing a new constitution as a result. The real Brexit is actually much more dystopian.
He kept thinking about an episode of “Black Mirror,” the British dystopian anthology series, in which the characters rate everyone they interact with on a scale of 1 to 5 stars. (It doesn’t end well.)
A pioneer of modern AI and Meta’s chief AI scientist, LeCun is one of the technology’s most vocal defenders. He scoffs at his peers’ dystopian scenarios of supercharged misinformation and even, eventually, human extinction.
Antonyms for dystopian
Common opposites include utopian.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dysteleological, utopian, dystropic, dystheist, post-apocalyptic, apocalyptic.
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