adj
Meaning 1
Of or pertaining to a dystopia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
dystopian
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General-American: /dɪsˈtoʊ.pi.ən/
adj
Meaning 2
Dire; characterized by human suffering or misery.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective
Meaning 3
as bad as can be; characterized by human misery- Susan Sontag
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: utopian
adjective
Meaning 4
of or pertaining to or resembling a dystopia
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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History
Etymology
Etymology tree English dystopia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English dystopian From dystopia + -an.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: dystopisch — pertaining to a dystopia
- Esperanto: malutopia — pertaining to a dystopia
- Finnish: dystopinen — pertaining to a dystopia
- French: dystopique — pertaining to a dystopia
- French: contre-utopique — pertaining to a dystopia
- French: dystopiste — pertaining to a dystopia
- French: contre-utopiste — pertaining to a dystopia
- German: dystopisch — pertaining to a dystopia
- Greek: δυστοπικός (dystopikós) — pertaining to a dystopia
- Italian: distopico — pertaining to a dystopia
- Persian: ویرانشهری (virân-šahri) — pertaining to a dystopia
- Portuguese: distópico — pertaining to a dystopia
- Romanian: distopic — pertaining to a dystopia
- Spanish: distópico — pertaining to a dystopia
- Swedish: dystopisk — pertaining to a dystopia
- Thai: ดิสโทเปีย (dís-too-bpiia) — pertaining to a dystopia
- Turkish: distopik — pertaining to a dystopia
- Vietnamese: phản địa đàng — pertaining to a dystopia
- Welsh: dystopaidd — pertaining to a dystopia
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