Definition of utopian
1 : of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a utopia; especially : having impossibly ideal conditions especially of social organization
2 : proposing or advocating impractically ideal social and political schemes utopian idealists
3 : impossibly ideal : visionary recognised the utopian nature of his hopes — C. S. Kilby
4 : believing in, advocating, or having the characteristics of utopian socialism utopian doctrines utopian novels
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a plan to revitalize the city's decaying downtown that proved to be overly ambitious and utopian
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There were plenty more besides: Seventh Day Adventists began practicing their beliefs in canal towns, as did the utopian Oneida Community.
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The Rajneeshees ended up using intimidation and political chicanery in an attempt to secure the group's power in the rural county, ultimately leading to the utopian community's demise.
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Kurzweil is the author of The Singularity Is Near, a Utopian vision of what an A.I. future holds.
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So what is the overriding trend with ISIS, which is seeking to transform its failing promise of utopian Islamic rule into a prime motivator of attacks worldwide, with weapons sometimes as simple as kitchen knives?
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The book also serves as a warning about creating a utopian world.
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This time, the family is constructed — a group of 19 adults and their newborns knit together in utopian community by Dr. Preston Grind, who is attempting to right the wrongs inflicted by his own experimental-psychologist parents.
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And the model is genuinely utopian enough to deserve nurturing.
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On the surface, a long ago wish of a utopian community that Fairhope's founders envisioned more than 120 years ago, seems to have been realized.
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In 1516 Thomas More published Utopia, a description of a fictional island in the Atlantic with an ideal society, in order to draw a sharp contrast with the disorderly political situation of his own time. He created the name from topos ("place") and ou, Greek for "no", since he was well aware that nowhere so perfect was likely to exist on earth. People have long dreamed of creating utopian communities; some of them have joined communes, societies where other idealists like themselves have chosen to live in a cooperative way according to certain principles. Not just communes but plans of all kinds have been labeled utopian by critics. But we can dream, can't we?
First Known Use of utopian
1551
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Definition of utopian
1 : one who believes in the perfectibility of human society
2 : one who proposes or advocates utopian schemes
Examples of utopian in a Sentence
in the 19th century utopians founded a number of short-lived socialist communities
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For years, technologists and other utopians have argued that online news would be a boon to democracy.
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First Known Use of utopian
circa 1873
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