Synonyms of dystopian

dystopian

adjective

as in anti-utopian

Related Words

• anti-utopian
• earthly
• terrestrial
• hellish
• mundane
• worldly
• infernal
• chthonic
• sulfurous
• plutonian
• Tartarean

Dissimilar Words

• celestial
• heavenly
• ethereal
• supernatural
• transcendental
• transcendent
• supernal
• unearthly
• empyrean
• unworldly
• empyreal
• blissful
• elysian
• angelic
• beatific

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of dystopian

Trying to escape the increasingly dystopian real world with a jaunt into the virtual one? — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 23 Sep. 2026

In Lois Lowry’s dystopian novel The Giver, a world of human complexity has been flattened deliberately to remove the inconvenient excesses of emotion and feeling. — Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026

Educators and parents who oppose the encroachment of Big Tech into schools are sometimes criticized for lacking a vision of the future that isn’t either dystopian or Luddite-lite. — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2026

But organizers seemed eager to push the event beyond dystopian warnings and move toward solutions. — Toluse Olorunnipa, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2026