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dystopia
[dis-toh-pee-uh]
noun
a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
dystopia
/ ɪˈəʊɪə /
noun
an imaginary place where everything is as bad as it can be
Other Word Forms
- dystopian adjective
- dystopianism noun
- ˈٴDZ辱 adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of dystopia1
Example Sentences
“Dystopian” TV may seem ubiquitous, but not all dystopias look the same.
In our modern dystopia, fire and brimstone have been replaced by ones and zeroes.
If there was a year of imagined American dystopia, it was 1934, when the next three novels were written or published.
In this particular dystopia, civilization has crumbled into a desertscape ruled by petty warlords and scavenger gangs.
Naomi Alderman’s new dystopia, ‘The Future,’ finds a new way into the genre she mastered in ‘The Power’: a battle royal of preppers, tech billionaires and cults.
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Related Words
- antiutopia
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