as in romantic
having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality
a plan to revitalize the city's decaying downtown that proved to be overly ambitious and utopian
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as in dreamer
one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world
in the 19th century utopians founded a number of short-lived socialist communities
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Recent Examples of utopian
Roy Scranton, JSTOR Daily, 18 Sep. 2025
The movie, which takes place in an alternate version of New York City inspired by ancient Rome, follows a conflict between Driver's character Cesar Catalina and the city's mayor (Esposito) over Cesar's plans to build a utopian society.
—Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2024
Can a Woman Be a Genius? Many Edwardian progressives and utopians put their hopes in the exceptional individual who was able to overcome obstacles with a force of will.
—JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
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Adjective
Godwin’s utopian story didn’t seem to match the evidence.
—Roy Scranton, JSTOR Daily, 18 Sep. 2025
The movie, which takes place in an alternate version of New York City inspired by ancient Rome, follows a conflict between Driver's character Cesar Catalina and the city's mayor (Esposito) over Cesar's plans to build a utopian society.
—Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
Religious groups, social reformers and utopians flowed to the canal zone, eager to integrate themselves in the new opportunities the waterway afforded.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2024
Can a Woman Be a Genius? Many Edwardian progressives and utopians put their hopes in the exceptional individual who was able to overcome obstacles with a force of will.
—JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for utopian
Adjective
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Across age groups, people are leaning on AI for emotional support, companionship and in some cases, romantic connections.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
14 Oct. 2025
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With a collaborative relationship dating back to 2023, Crocs and Simone Rocha have attracted attention with their romantic clog styles in the past few years, gaining stamps of approval from celebrities like Julia Fox and Michelle Yeoh.—
Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
14 Oct. 2025
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Throughout the 1970s, as much as Nicholson’s rebels or Beatty’s hopeless romantics, Keaton’s optimistic dreamers repeatedly collided with the realities of the times, measuring the distance between what the counterculture thought was possible and what the world would actually allow.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2025
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The bubble-ists think that the Coreweave people are hopeless dreamers at best and shysters at worst.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This made real-time speech recognition impractical.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Oct. 2025
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Stanley, the spokesman for WSPA, said the refinery rules and other measures were impractical.—
CalMatters,
Mercury News,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Venus is extremely content in idealistic Libra.—
Lisa Stardust,
Refinery29,
14 Oct. 2025
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For more than a century, people have wondered if the city is ungovernable; with the exception of Fiorello La Guardia, who had New Deal money raining down on him, every idealistic leader who has been elected mayor has left City Hall in some way battered by it.—
Eric Lach,
New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2025
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Wish-casting a better result for a confrontation in a different place, Vindman suppresses how much and how often America antagonized Russia through its idealist actions, rather than realist inaction.—
Samuel Moyn,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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This, in turn, becomes logically reliant on the idealist paradigm of Consciousness as the fundamental lowest common denominator of reality.—
Carlo Tortora Brayda,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But part of that strategy is clearly paired with the family’s ideological project.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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Miller argues that universities are breeding grounds for ideological intolerance, laying blame on Marxist ideas.—
Mitch Picasso , Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Many of Herzog’s films capture that sense of a quixotic, even bizarre quest, an antihero searching for some kind of truth that may be obvious only to himself.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
28 Sep. 2025
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His performance here most recalls his tragicomic portrayal of John Brown, the heroic but unhinged abolitionist whose quixotic raid on Harpers Ferry helped catalyze the Civil War, in Showtime’s 2020 adaptation of James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Utopian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/utopian. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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