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dystopia
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dystopia is a team-based, objective-driven, first-person shooter video game , developed as a total conversion modification on the Valve Corporation's proprietary Source engine . It is based on the cyberpunk literary (and aesthetic) genre; somewhat based ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But the flipside of utopia, dystopia , has also been a fertile undercurrent of modernity. ▪ But the narrative of the afterlife is so fully developed it seems to be Self's surreal dystopia of urban alienation. ▪ Utopias are goals ...
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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"imaginary bad place," 1868, apparently coined by J.S. Mill ("Hansard Commons"), from Greek dys- "bad, abnormal, difficult" (see dys- ) + utopia . Related: Dystopian .
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.