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dystopia
Alternative clues for the word dystopia
- Society in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" or "Fahrenheit 451"
- Literally, Greek for "bad place"
- Paradise's opposite
- Undesirable place
- State in which the condition of life is extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror
- "The Walking Dead" is set in one
- Undesirable society type depicted in Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
Word definitions for dystopia in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. state in which the condition of life is extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror [ant: utopia ] a work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dystopia was an experimental sludge metal and crust punk band that formed in Oakland, California in 1991. Dystopia was popular in both the heavy metal and crust punk scenes, due in large part to the band's bleak, misanthropic imagery. Dystopia's lyrics ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A vision of a future that is a corrupted (usually beyond recognition) utopian society. 2 A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living. 3 (context medicine English) Anatomical tissue that is not found in its usual ...
Usage examples of dystopia.
But can there be dystopias today with science and technology advancing as they do?
My futuristic dystopias could perhaps be more correctly classified as nightmares, but it was the more lighthearted contemporary fantasy, the kid stuff, that had made me a household name.
After World War II, deluged by stories about atomic war and post-nuclear dystopias, Campbell announced that atomic bombs and space flight had been used up as topics, and writers needed to turn to something new.
Clements was treating the policewoman to one of his lectures, waving his hands as he pontificated on change and decay, Utopias and Dystopias, past glory and contemporary decadence.
Syzygy, crapulent, posterity, smegma, toiletry, dystopia, dentrifrice, bastinado, ferae naturae.