dystopia

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• Received-Pronunciation: /dɪsˈtəʊ.pi.ə/
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• General-American: /dɪsˈtoʊ.pi.ə/
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• Australian: /dɪsˈtɐʉpiə/
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• rhymes with -əʊpiə
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From dys- + -topia, as if from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”) + -ία (-ía), based on utopia being reinterpreted as eu-topia.

52 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bengali: দুঃস্বপ্নলোক (dush-shawp-no-lok) — miserable society
• Catalan: distopia — miserable society
• Catalan: antiutopia — miserable society
• Chinese Mandarin: 反烏托邦 /反乌托邦 (fǎnwūtuōbāng) — miserable society
• Chinese Mandarin: 敵托邦 /敌托邦 (dítuōbāng) — miserable society
• Chinese Mandarin: 絕望鄉 /绝望乡 — miserable society
• Min Nan Chinese: 絕望鄉 /绝望乡 — miserable society
• Danish: dystopi — miserable society
• Dutch: dystopie — miserable society
• Esperanto: malutopio — miserable society
• Finnish: dystopia — miserable society
• French: dystopie — miserable society
• French: contre-utopie — miserable society
• Galician: distopía — miserable society
• German: Dystopie — miserable society
• German: Mätopie — miserable society
• German: Anti-Utopie — miserable society
• German: Gegenutopie — miserable society
• Greek: δυστοπία (dystopía) — miserable society
• Hindi: रावणराज्य (rāvaṇrājya) — miserable society
• Hungarian: disztópia — miserable society
• Indonesian: rat petaka — miserable society
• Irish: diostóipe — miserable society
• Italian: distopia — miserable society
• Japanese: 暗黒郷 (ankokukyō) — miserable society
• Japanese: ディストピア (disutopia) — miserable society
• Korean: 반이상향 (banisanghyang) — miserable society
• Korean: 디스토피아 (diseutopia) — miserable society
• Māori: ao houmate — miserable society
• Persian: ویرانشهر (virân-šahr) — miserable society
• Polish: dystopia — miserable society
• Portuguese: distopia — miserable society
• Romanian: distopie — miserable society
• Russian: антиуто́пия (antiutópija) — miserable society
• Russian: дисто́пия (distópija) — miserable society
• Russian: дистопи́я (distopíja) — miserable society
• Spanish: distopía — miserable society
• Swedish: dystopi — miserable society
• Turkish: distopya — miserable society
• Ukrainian: антиуто́пія (antyutópija) — miserable society
• Vietnamese: phản địa đàng — miserable society
• Welsh: dystopia — miserable society
• Bulgarian: дистопия (distopija) — medical condition
• Esperanto: malutopio — medical condition
• Finnish: malpositio — medical condition
• French: dystopie — medical condition
• German: Dystopie — medical condition
• Indonesian: malaposisi — medical condition
• Italian: distopia — medical condition
• Portuguese: distopia — medical condition
• Russian: дистопи́я (distopíja) — medical condition
• Turkish: distopya — medical condition