Imaginary place where all is bad

• The London of "Brave New World," e.g
• 2016 Megadeth album whose title track won a Grammy for Best Metal Performance
• "The Hunger Games" universe, e.g.
• Undesirable place
• State in which the condition of life is extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror

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 ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Dystopia " is a heavy metal song by American band Iced Earth . It is the title-track and first song of the bands album by the same name . On October 6, the song was made available for streaming on Revolver magazine's official website. It was the opening ...

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 .