utopian

2 of 2

noun

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of utopian
Adjective
Moving Forward The evolution of AI image generation suggests neither utopian transformation nor existential threat, but rather a reconfiguration of visual communication. Gerui Wang, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025 Olah, like many in the community who balance visions of utopian abundance and existential devastation, plants himself in the middle of this either-or proposition. Steven Levy, Wired News, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
In attempting to build a new settlement out of whole cloth, these tech moguls are following a tradition started nearly a century ago by other American industrialists, who built company towns around their mills, and utopians who built remote communities in line with their social beliefs. Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2023 But outside the Dorado Beach gates, life is far from a utopian as the decades-long crisis makes essential services, employment, and wealth inaccessible to locals, leaving Puerto Ricans unable to thrive at home. Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 3 May 2021 See All Example Sentences for utopian
Recent Examples of Synonyms for utopian
Adjective
  • Account hopes to combat misogynistic online content Creators like Andrew Tate provide a pipeline for men seeking advice about romantic rejection, physical self-esteem and economic insecurity to fall into radicalism and misogyny.
    Rachel Hale, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Not a depiction of romantic bliss, but a kind of love song all the same.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Often nobody but the dreamers get hurt when their impossible dreams fall flat.
    Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The film follows a young dreamer mistaken for Earth’s ambassador to a cosmic council, blending humor, heart and sci-fi spectacle.
    Jamie Lang, Variety, 16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Tapping into the endowment may be impractical for several reasons, including that some of it is legally restricted, but also because some of the unrestricted money is tied up in illiquid assets, such as in hedge funds, private equity and real estate that can’t be easily sold.
    Kara Scannell, CNN Money, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Blockchain might revolutionize insurance claim processing while proving impractical for emergency communications.
    Chloe Demrovsky, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Lucas loved the idealistic adventure reels of the ’30s and ’40s where good and evil were divided by a fresh coat of paint.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The agreement was motivated primarily by the desire for greater economic efficiency and personal convenience, not by idealistic efforts to realize absolute humanist or European federal ideals.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Labour leader Starmer, though, has taken a realist rather than an idealist approach to the president, putting Britain's foreign policy interests above the strong opposition to Trump in the rank and file of his own party.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Aveline is known for his folksy, easy-going nature, readiness to crack jokes, and ideological proximity to Francis, especially on immigration and relations with the Muslim world.
    Philip Pullella, Crispian Balmer, Alvise Armellini, Joshua McElwee and Chris Scicluna, USA Today, 21 Apr. 2025
  • This is obviously tendentious—nor does Stewart mean it entirely seriously—but, then, Lincoln, like Jesus, is easily made to conform to whatever ideological need the historian brings to him.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • There is a difference between quixotic and foolish.
    Ilan Stavans, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Our devastation of nature is so deep and vast that to reverse its effects, on any front, often entails efforts that are so painstaking and quixotic as to border on the ridiculous.
    Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Utopian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/utopian. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

More from Merriam-Webster on utopian

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!