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dystopia
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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
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 compilation album consisting of earlier albums, Spanking Machine , To Mother , and the Handsome and Gretel Single recorded by Babes in Toyland . It was released in 1994 by Insipid Records.
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.