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Princeton's WordNet

  1. dystopianadjective

    of or pertaining to or resembling a dystopia

  2. dystopianadjective

    as bad as can be; characterized by human misery

    "AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages"- Susan Sontag

Wiktionary

  1. dystopianadjective

    of or pertaining to a dystopia

  2. dystopianadjective

    dire; characterized by human suffering or misery

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  1. dystopian

    Dystopian refers to a type of genre, often in literature or film, that portrays a terrifying or grim future where society is repressed, controlled, or in a state of collapse. This narrative often serves as a warning or critique of current societal trends, systems, or structures. It typically involves settings such as totalitarian governments, post-apocalyptic world, and high-tech surveillance societies. It is the opposite of a utopia, which is an idealized vision of the future.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dystopian in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dystopian in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of dystopian in a Sentence

  1. Jeffrey Gracer:

    The rest of corporate America is saying it doesn’t make much sense for us to live in a dystopian world.

  2. Annalisa Fernandez:

    In any culture, we don’t cooperate mindlessly; we have the option to go it alone, but survival usually depends on specializing and contributing our talent to the group, in Fortnite, there’s the ability to work in a group (the squad) or alone in communities within imposed borders (the dystopian island), where communication, leadership, and in the end, luck wins the game.

  3. Rebecca Todd Peters:

    There are a whole lot more who support bodily autonomy for mothers to make decisions about life and how many children they have and who they have them with and how to shape their future with or without partners, we've allowed a minority religious belief to curtail the rights of the majority of women in the country. I feel like I'm in the middle of a dystopian novel.

  4. Ronan Evain:

    It becomes a bit of a dystopian World Cup if the stadium could be anywhere in the world... in the middle of the desert and then you just fly in and out, that’s certainly not the experience of the majority of fans are looking for.

  5. Madison Cawthorn:

    Fake news MSNBC doesn’t want to ‘take the risk’ that I’ll come on their show and trigger the left with my America First message and burst their woke dystopian bubble, the left doesn’t want debate from conservatives, they want silence. And now we have it in writing. Sad!

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