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Definition of dystopian in English: dystopianadjectivedɪsˈtəʊpɪəndisˈtōpēən Relating to or denoting an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. the dystopian future of a society bereft of reason the utopian dream that became a dystopian nightmare Example sentencesExamples - Neither do I agree with the even more dystopian picture of entire nation states now under threat from the new terrorist activities.
- For his dystopian vision of the future, George Orwell chose the year 1984.
- Like the novel, it portrays Gilead, a dystopian society not too far in the future.
- Both McLuhan's and Marcuse's dissection of modern technology is neither dystopian nor pessimistic.
- Not all of his admirers were fully aware of the satirical or dystopian aspects of his work, however.
- What's off the mark about his dystopian predictions is that his narrator is saying these things, as opposed to merely thinking them.
- Now seems an apt time to stage George Orwell's dystopian novel about the corruption of language.
- Blackly funny and chillingly dystopian, Battle Royale has been having quite a resurgence recently.
- These 1960s science-fiction films were aimed at a critical adult audience and were categorized as dystopian and post-holocaust.
- The novel conjures up a lawless dystopian world of youth violence and institutional mind-manipulation.
noundɪsˈtəʊpɪəndisˈtōpēən A person who advocates or describes an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad. a lot of things those dystopians feared did not come true Example sentencesExamples - For some dystopians, new technology is a source of control.
- I'm not an Internet utopian, but I'm not an Internet dystopian either.
- British dystopian Watkins prophesizes in his film that protestors and lefties are arrested, tried, and surreptitiously executed in the desert.
- This nostalgic embrace of primitiveness leads dystopians to interpret every technological advance as another step toward an ultimately dehumanized existence.
- Dystopians, in contradistinction to utopians, believe that technology is more regressive than progressive, more a force for evil than good.
- It is not surprising that the two greatest literary dystopians, Huxley and Orwell, were English.
- I am not a dystopian who thinks that making some efforts to make tools for slaughtering large numbers of people inaccessible to maniacs will transform America into Amerika.
- Yet, this technological naivety finally does not matter, for the dystopians' purpose is moral and political.
Rhymescornucopian, Ethiopian, Salopian, subtopian, Utopian Definition of dystopian in US English: dystopianadjectivedisˈtōpēən Relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice. the dystopian future of a society bereft of reason the utopian dream that became a dystopian nightmare Example sentencesExamples - What's off the mark about his dystopian predictions is that his narrator is saying these things, as opposed to merely thinking them.
- Not all of his admirers were fully aware of the satirical or dystopian aspects of his work, however.
- Both McLuhan's and Marcuse's dissection of modern technology is neither dystopian nor pessimistic.
- The novel conjures up a lawless dystopian world of youth violence and institutional mind-manipulation.
- These 1960s science-fiction films were aimed at a critical adult audience and were categorized as dystopian and post-holocaust.
- Like the novel, it portrays Gilead, a dystopian society not too far in the future.
- Now seems an apt time to stage George Orwell's dystopian novel about the corruption of language.
- For his dystopian vision of the future, George Orwell chose the year 1984.
- Neither do I agree with the even more dystopian picture of entire nation states now under threat from the new terrorist activities.
- Blackly funny and chillingly dystopian, Battle Royale has been having quite a resurgence recently.
noundisˈtōpēən A person who imagines or foresees a state or society where there is great suffering or injustice. a lot of things those dystopians feared did not come true Example sentencesExamples - I am not a dystopian who thinks that making some efforts to make tools for slaughtering large numbers of people inaccessible to maniacs will transform America into Amerika.
- British dystopian Watkins prophesizes in his film that protestors and lefties are arrested, tried, and surreptitiously executed in the desert.
- For some dystopians, new technology is a source of control.
- Yet, this technological naivety finally does not matter, for the dystopians' purpose is moral and political.
- Dystopians, in contradistinction to utopians, believe that technology is more regressive than progressive, more a force for evil than good.
- It is not surprising that the two greatest literary dystopians, Huxley and Orwell, were English.
- This nostalgic embrace of primitiveness leads dystopians to interpret every technological advance as another step toward an ultimately dehumanized existence.
- I'm not an Internet utopian, but I'm not an Internet dystopian either.
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