Definition of dystopia
1 : an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives
2 literature : anti-utopia 2 writing a dystopia
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Only doom, dystopia, dread, darkness — and a bumper-sticker solution to restoring greatness.
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The lineup of speakers presented a United States in danger, threatened from abroad and from within, a once-proud nation on the very brink of chaos and dystopia.
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Little in these dynamics suggests a high-tech utopia — or dystopia, for that matter — in the offing.
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Miller constructs his imaginative dystopia with the kinetic energy of action filmmaking.
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Though fairly mild-mannered, the art-hoarding Nigel is the clearest face of the totalitarian mentality at work in Children of Men's dystopia.
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These vary from a nineteenth-century sea-travel narrative to a satire about old folks' homes to a futuristic consumerist dystopia.
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In the movies, the future tends to look either like the blissfully Utopian world of Star Trek or the total dystopia of Hunger Games et al.
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That is why Congressman Paul Ryan's vision for the future of America — as bleak a dystopia as Dickens could ever have spun, where fewer share in prosperity and pain equals moral purity — is now on the table and actionable.
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Origin and Etymology of dystopia
New Latin, from dys- + -topia (as in utopia)
First Known Use: circa 1950
DYSTOPIA Defined for English Language Learners
dystopia
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dys·to·pia
\(ˌ)dis-ˈtō-pē-ə\
Definition of dystopia for English Language Learners
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: an imaginary place where people are unhappy and usually afraid because they are not treated fairly
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