[ dis-toh-pee-uh ]SHOW IPA
/ dɪsˈtoʊ pi ə /PHONETIC RESPELLING
a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
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How to use dystopia in a sentence
The next leap constitutes the dystopias in which we achieve immortality by preserving our minds digitally, or machines use our brain wiring to make super-intelligent machines that wipe humanity out.
The Bees Laline Paull [Ecco] This arresting debut novel is a daring dystopian story set in a beehive.
Yet there are glimpses of surpassingly eerie dystopian beauty.
Certainly now when here are, in the aftermath of The Giver, a number of dystopian novels, which involve a great deal of violence.
I never as a reader have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.
When it comes to dystopian, young adult fiction, Lois Lowry was the trailblazer.
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British Dictionary definitions for dystopia
an imaginary place where everything is as bad as it can be
Derived forms of dystopia
dystopian, adjective, nounWord Origin for dystopia
C19 [coined by John Stuart Mill]: from dys- + Utopia
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Medical definitions for dystopia
An abnormal position, as of an organ or a body part.malposition
Other words from dystopia
dystopic [-tŏpĭk] adj.The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.