ANTI-UTOPIAN Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in dystopian

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noun

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Noun

This dreamscape of the island, like that of the jungle, illuminates in children’s literature a sense of utopia and longing about childhood as a not-quite-place, situated in an irretrievable past-yet-future, while at the same time rooted in an anti-utopian logic of adulthood. — Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025

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Adjective

Although never stated outright, Dee and Dennis’s exaggerated get-rich-quick plot smacks of risky financial endeavors, such as the rise of dystopian prediction markets.

— Paula Mejía, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
While excoriating the loss of his visa, López Beltrán also painted a dystopian picture of present-day life north of the border.

— Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of dystopian

Noun

Life has beaten down Weisman’s Jake Levinson, once the radical front man of a bad Rage Against the Machine clone, into a dead-eyed nihilist.

— Judy Berman, Time, 11 Aug. 2026
As criminal cases have increased against members of violent nihilist groups, related abuse reports have also risen.

— Curt Devine, CNN Money, 10 Feb. 2026

Definition of nihilist

Noun

The final batch continues to focus on the generations of the Buendía family living amid political infighting in Macondo while building up to the magical-realist masterpiece’s tragic end.

— Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2026
Ever the realist, Cox does know and freely admits his athlete’s distance preferences.

— Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of realist

Noun

That the earnestness the genre requires galls us cynics, who love to hide in our books, away from all those pesky bodies in the first place?

— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2026
Questions about whose interests Infantino is serving have developed beyond average cynics who tend to suspect this type of thing.

— Simon Hughes, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of cynic

Noun

Craig ran instead as a hard-charging pragmatist who had fought her way into becoming the top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee.

— David Weigel, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Rezaei has been described as a hardline pragmatist, and that certainly showed in our interview.

— Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of pragmatist

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