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dystopian /dɪsˈtəʊpɪən /adjectiveRelating to or denoting an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one: the dystopian future of a society bereft of reason the utopian dream that became a dystopian nightmare...- For his dystopian vision of the future, George Orwell chose the year 1984.
- Like the novel, it portrays Gilead, a dystopian society not too far in the future.
- Both McLuhan's and Marcuse's dissection of modern technology is neither dystopian nor pessimistic.
nounA person who advocates or describes an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad: a lot of things those dystopians feared did not come true...- Yet, this technological naivety finally does not matter, for the dystopians' purpose is moral and political.
- It is not surprising that the two greatest literary dystopians, Huxley and Orwell, were English.
- British dystopian Watkins prophesizes in his film that protestors and lefties are arrested, tried, and surreptitiously executed in the desert.
Rhymes cornucopian, Ethiopian, Salopian, subtopian, Utopian |