Definition of dystopia in English:

dystopia

noun dɪsˈtəʊpɪədɪsˈtoʊpiə

An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.
敌托邦，反面乌托邦，反面假想国（虚构的地方或国家，该地一切都是丑恶的，尤其存在极权主义或环境恶化）。UTOPIA 的反义词
The opposite of utopia
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘The future,’ as a social construct, is commonly understood in terms of utopias and dystopias.
- It's set in a future dystopia, where a lone individual fights against a totalitarian regime.
- These dystopias of capitalism are squeezing out communities' hope as they sedate them with the best salaries around.
- Now it appears we face the prospect of two contradictory dystopias at once - open markets, closed minds - because state surveillance is back again with a vengeance.
- The two works together conjuring the horror of a dystopia which is never as far away as you might imagine.
- Unlike many science fiction dystopias, this one seems uncomfortably realistic.
- Will all tomorrow's cinematic dystopias be virtual?
- The swarm is a recurring form of force in our dystopias and fears of destruction.
- Virilio writes about the dystopia that has already happened.
- Orwell's genius was to take the theme of a totalitarian dystopia to the max.
- In Metropolis, Fritz Lang had the office as an urban dystopia with workers shuffling about in smocks with bowed heads, sedated by repetition.
- A combination of greed, corruption and bad planning has transformed many cities into polluted dystopias, friendly neither to the bike nor the human being.
- My favourite genre is the dystopia, and this novel is filled with references to a horrible future, filled with fascists and war.
- It's extremely difficult to imagine a realistic dystopia because we're so tempted to create a caricature.
- But in his 1932 novel Brave New World, he created one of the truly memorable 20th-century dystopias, which is also one of the most frighteningly pessimistic.
- The story is a delirious, chaotic, often impenetrable allegory of tribalism in an industrial dystopia.
- The filmmaker just can't help himself - leave it to him to find a silver lining in the dystopia he so carefully sets up.
- By using existing modernist architecture for locations, and having their characters speak a mutated form of English, they persuasively create a high-tech dystopia.
- It is hardly surprising that a century of utopian dreams and coercive social engineering to achieve them should have been a century rich in imaginative dystopias.
- Yet in the dystopias of his late novels, the evil of oligarchic collectivism crowds out the petty, everyday struggle for socialist policies in this world.

Origin

Late 18th century: from dys- 'bad' + utopia.

utopia from mid 16th century:
The English scholar and statesman Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia in Latin in 1516, depicting an imaginary island enjoying a perfect social, legal, and political system. The name implies that such an ideal place exists ‘nowhere’, as More created it from Greek ou ‘not’, and topos ‘place’ the source of terms such as topography (mid 17th century), the arrangement of the physical features of an area. In the 17th century other writers started using utopia for other imaginary places where everything is perfect. The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia where everything is as bad as possible, a word formed in the late 18th century from Greek dus- ‘bad’, as if More had formed the word from Greek eu- ‘good’. Cacotopia or kakotopia (early 19th century) are less popular alternatives to dystopia. Topia has recently come to be used as a combining form for new words such as ecotopia, an ideal ecological world; motopia, a slightly misleading term as it means an ideal world where the use of cars is limited; pornotopia, the ideal setting for pornography; queuetopia, a far from ideal world of long queues; and subtopia, the ideal suburban world.

Rhymes

cornucopia, Ethiopia, myopia, subtopia, Utopia

Definition of dystopia in US English:

dystopia

noundisˈtōpēədɪsˈtoʊpiə

An imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic.
Compare with utopia
Example sentencesExamples
- A combination of greed, corruption and bad planning has transformed many cities into polluted dystopias, friendly neither to the bike nor the human being.
- Will all tomorrow's cinematic dystopias be virtual?
- The story is a delirious, chaotic, often impenetrable allegory of tribalism in an industrial dystopia.
- By using existing modernist architecture for locations, and having their characters speak a mutated form of English, they persuasively create a high-tech dystopia.
- But in his 1932 novel Brave New World, he created one of the truly memorable 20th-century dystopias, which is also one of the most frighteningly pessimistic.
- The two works together conjuring the horror of a dystopia which is never as far away as you might imagine.
- Now it appears we face the prospect of two contradictory dystopias at once - open markets, closed minds - because state surveillance is back again with a vengeance.
- Orwell's genius was to take the theme of a totalitarian dystopia to the max.
- The filmmaker just can't help himself - leave it to him to find a silver lining in the dystopia he so carefully sets up.
- It's set in a future dystopia, where a lone individual fights against a totalitarian regime.
- Unlike many science fiction dystopias, this one seems uncomfortably realistic.
- It's extremely difficult to imagine a realistic dystopia because we're so tempted to create a caricature.
- It is hardly surprising that a century of utopian dreams and coercive social engineering to achieve them should have been a century rich in imaginative dystopias.
- Yet in the dystopias of his late novels, the evil of oligarchic collectivism crowds out the petty, everyday struggle for socialist policies in this world.
- These dystopias of capitalism are squeezing out communities' hope as they sedate them with the best salaries around.
- In Metropolis, Fritz Lang had the office as an urban dystopia with workers shuffling about in smocks with bowed heads, sedated by repetition.
- ‘The future,’ as a social construct, is commonly understood in terms of utopias and dystopias.
- Virilio writes about the dystopia that has already happened.
- The swarm is a recurring form of force in our dystopias and fears of destruction.
- My favourite genre is the dystopia, and this novel is filled with references to a horrible future, filled with fascists and war.

Origin

Late 18th century: from dys- ‘bad’ + utopia.

词汇	dystopia
释义	Definition of dystopia in English: dystopia noun dɪsˈtəʊpɪədɪsˈtoʊpiə An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. 敌托邦，反面乌托邦，反面假想国（虚构的地方或国家，该地一切都是丑恶的，尤其存在极权主义或环境恶化）。UTOPIA 的反义词 The opposite of utopia Example sentencesExamples ‘The future,’ as a social construct, is commonly understood in terms of utopias and dystopias. It's set in a future dystopia, where a lone individual fights against a totalitarian regime. These dystopias of capitalism are squeezing out communities' hope as they sedate them with the best salaries around. Now it appears we face the prospect of two contradictory dystopias at once - open markets, closed minds - because state surveillance is back again with a vengeance. The two works together conjuring the horror of a dystopia which is never as far away as you might imagine. Unlike many science fiction dystopias, this one seems uncomfortably realistic. Will all tomorrow's cinematic dystopias be virtual? The swarm is a recurring form of force in our dystopias and fears of destruction. Virilio writes about the dystopia that has already happened. Orwell's genius was to take the theme of a totalitarian dystopia to the max. In Metropolis, Fritz Lang had the office as an urban dystopia with workers shuffling about in smocks with bowed heads, sedated by repetition. A combination of greed, corruption and bad planning has transformed many cities into polluted dystopias, friendly neither to the bike nor the human being. My favourite genre is the dystopia, and this novel is filled with references to a horrible future, filled with fascists and war. It's extremely difficult to imagine a realistic dystopia because we're so tempted to create a caricature. But in his 1932 novel Brave New World, he created one of the truly memorable 20th-century dystopias, which is also one of the most frighteningly pessimistic. The story is a delirious, chaotic, often impenetrable allegory of tribalism in an industrial dystopia. The filmmaker just can't help himself - leave it to him to find a silver lining in the dystopia he so carefully sets up. By using existing modernist architecture for locations, and having their characters speak a mutated form of English, they persuasively create a high-tech dystopia. It is hardly surprising that a century of utopian dreams and coercive social engineering to achieve them should have been a century rich in imaginative dystopias. Yet in the dystopias of his late novels, the evil of oligarchic collectivism crowds out the petty, everyday struggle for socialist policies in this world. Origin Late 18th century: from dys- 'bad' + utopia. utopia from mid 16th century: The English scholar and statesman Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia in Latin in 1516, depicting an imaginary island enjoying a perfect social, legal, and political system. The name implies that such an ideal place exists ‘nowhere’, as More created it from Greek ou ‘not’, and topos ‘place’ the source of terms such as topography (mid 17th century), the arrangement of the physical features of an area. In the 17th century other writers started using utopia for other imaginary places where everything is perfect. The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia where everything is as bad as possible, a word formed in the late 18th century from Greek dus- ‘bad’, as if More had formed the word from Greek eu- ‘good’. Cacotopia or kakotopia (early 19th century) are less popular alternatives to dystopia. Topia has recently come to be used as a combining form for new words such as ecotopia, an ideal ecological world; motopia, a slightly misleading term as it means an ideal world where the use of cars is limited; pornotopia, the ideal setting for pornography; queuetopia, a far from ideal world of long queues; and subtopia, the ideal suburban world. Rhymes cornucopia, Ethiopia, myopia, subtopia, Utopia Definition of dystopia in US English: dystopia noundisˈtōpēədɪsˈtoʊpiə An imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic. Compare with utopia Example sentencesExamples A combination of greed, corruption and bad planning has transformed many cities into polluted dystopias, friendly neither to the bike nor the human being. Will all tomorrow's cinematic dystopias be virtual? The story is a delirious, chaotic, often impenetrable allegory of tribalism in an industrial dystopia. By using existing modernist architecture for locations, and having their characters speak a mutated form of English, they persuasively create a high-tech dystopia. But in his 1932 novel Brave New World, he created one of the truly memorable 20th-century dystopias, which is also one of the most frighteningly pessimistic. The two works together conjuring the horror of a dystopia which is never as far away as you might imagine. Now it appears we face the prospect of two contradictory dystopias at once - open markets, closed minds - because state surveillance is back again with a vengeance. Orwell's genius was to take the theme of a totalitarian dystopia to the max. The filmmaker just can't help himself - leave it to him to find a silver lining in the dystopia he so carefully sets up. It's set in a future dystopia, where a lone individual fights against a totalitarian regime. Unlike many science fiction dystopias, this one seems uncomfortably realistic. It's extremely difficult to imagine a realistic dystopia because we're so tempted to create a caricature. It is hardly surprising that a century of utopian dreams and coercive social engineering to achieve them should have been a century rich in imaginative dystopias. Yet in the dystopias of his late novels, the evil of oligarchic collectivism crowds out the petty, everyday struggle for socialist policies in this world. These dystopias of capitalism are squeezing out communities' hope as they sedate them with the best salaries around. In Metropolis, Fritz Lang had the office as an urban dystopia with workers shuffling about in smocks with bowed heads, sedated by repetition. ‘The future,’ as a social construct, is commonly understood in terms of utopias and dystopias. Virilio writes about the dystopia that has already happened. The swarm is a recurring form of force in our dystopias and fears of destruction. My favourite genre is the dystopia, and this novel is filled with references to a horrible future, filled with fascists and war. Origin Late 18th century: from dys- ‘bad’ + utopia.
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