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  • noun An Utopian; an optimist.

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  • noun A believer in utopianism.

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utopian +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • Both are "utopianist" - guided by a vision of a perfect social order, the one under "scientific socialism," the other under Allah.

    Israpundit Ted Belman 2010

  • I think that they are perfectly content to get the Senate bill as a foothold, and wait another 10, 20 , 30 years to fine tune it into a utopianist single-payer monoloithic system of control.

    Procedure is Politics | RedState 2010

  • Wang, a utopianist who usurped the Western Han in 9 CE and attempted to resume the ancient Zhou system, carried out radical policies both in internal and frontier China, which made worse the already unstable Southwestern Barbarian area.

    Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

  • One of the unsung Jewish heroes of World War II, utopianist Zosha Posnanska fought the Germans by aiding the Soviet military.

    Zosha Posnanska. 2009

  • Soil requires blood, sacrificial blood that is, and politicians, usually those of the stripe that believe they are doing the best for the most people, along with some half-baked utopianist ideals, are quite to supply blood by the bucket.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • The aristocracy Tolkien respects Morgan plainly finds repellent - he's a utopianist who rejects the truth that people, each being unique, are simply not "equal" by definition, and aristocracy is as bold an expression of that as there is.

    The Real Fantastic Stuff, an essay by Richard K. Morgan - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games 2009

  • Which is why an alleged utopianist like, say, Steve Jobs devotes himself to beautiful baubles, as if a Fabergé Egg for every consumer was the closest any of us could expect to the shining city on a hill.

    I Am George Jetson 2007

  • Dr.amy utopianist that he was, Dr. Dr.mmond focused laser-like on logic.

    Dissident Voice Michael K. Smith 2010

  • From its acknowledgment of Kirk's near pathological desire to cheat death through to maintaining McCoy's ascerbic wit and place in the Kirk / Spock / McCoy troika, and keeping an awareness of Gene Roddenberry's utopianist vision, it hits all the right buttons and invents new ones too.

    Cosmodaddy 2009

  • Too late to benefit her children, the school board eventually realized the touchy-feeling, utopianist program wasn't working and threw it into the dustbin of history.

    sisu 2008

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