Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror.
- noun A work describing such a place or state.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Malposition; dislocation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A vision of a future that is a
corrupted (usually beyond recognition)utopian society. - noun A
miserable ,dysfunctional state or society that has a very poorstandard of living . - noun medicine Anatomical tissue that is not found in its usual place.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror
- noun a work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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While the father can still remember pieces of a time before everything turned gray and lifeless, this dystopia is all the son has ever known.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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While the father can still remember pieces of a time before everything turned gray and lifeless, this dystopia is all the son has ever known.
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I have recently decided that the dystopia is the only "true" form of futuristic sf left because any realistic assessment of the future based on the present must determine that the future is going to be bad.
Happy Father's Day 2007
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And dystopia is not a fashion statement, and it's not just window dressing, or the Cool New Flavor of the Week.
"This is my dream. I make the path." readingthedark 2010
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Your beautiful dystopia is well on its way under the direction of your dear leader.
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The issue of the missing dystopia is only one of them (though, a not-inconsiderable one).
"This is my dream. I make the path." readingthedark 2010
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As Owen Hatherley, a perceptive commentator on both Eno and Ballard, asks of Vermilion Sands: ‘could there be here a sort of affirmative retort to the insistence that all Modernist or utopian communities inevitably end up in dystopia?’
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Your beautiful dystopia is well on its way under the direction of your dear leader.
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And dystopia is not a fashion statement, and it's not just window dressing, or the Cool New Flavor of the Week.
"Alice" readingthedark 2010
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Since dystopia is going to be a theme on the next Blog Tour (featuring Broken Angel), I have added what I consider the greatest dystopia of all time, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
cranewang commented on the word dystopia
...and America, it seemed, had become a strange dystopia, decadent and almost...
May 11, 2008
nuxiy commented on the word dystopia
Our future :(
May 17, 2009
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word dystopia
Nineteen Eighty Four comes to mind.
July 18, 2009