Meaning of dystopia in English:
dystopia
See synonyms for dystopia on Thesaurus.comnoun
An imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic.
Compare with utopia‘environmental disaster is the backdrop to this modern dystopia’- ‘It's extremely difficult to imagine a realistic dystopia because we're so tempted to create a caricature.’
- ‘Orwell's genius was to take the theme of a totalitarian dystopia to the max.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘The two works together conjuring the horror of a dystopia which is never as far away as you might imagine.’
- ‘It's set in a future dystopia, where a lone individual fights against a totalitarian regime.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘A combination of greed, corruption and bad planning has transformed many cities into polluted dystopias, friendly neither to the bike nor the human being.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘‘The future,’ as a social construct, is commonly understood in terms of utopias and dystopias.’
- ‘Will all tomorrow's cinematic dystopias be virtual?’
- ‘Unlike many science fiction dystopias, this one seems uncomfortably realistic.’
- ‘These dystopias of capitalism are squeezing out communities' hope as they sedate them with the best salaries around.’
- ‘The swarm is a recurring form of force in our dystopias and fears of destruction.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘Virilio writes about the dystopia that has already happened.’
- ‘The filmmaker just can't help himself - leave it to him to find a silver lining in the dystopia he so carefully sets up.’
- ‘My favourite genre is the dystopia, and this novel is filled with references to a horrible future, filled with fascists and war.’
- ‘In Metropolis, Fritz Lang had the office as an urban dystopia with workers shuffling about in smocks with bowed heads, sedated by repetition.’
Origin
Are You Learning English? Here Are Our Top English Tips