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- DictionaryDys·to·pi·a/disˈtōpēə/
noun
- 1. an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic: "environmental disaster is the backdrop to this modern dystopia"
Add to word list. a very bad or unfair society in which there is a lot of suffering, especially an imaginary society in the future, after something terrible has happened; a description of such a society: The film is set in 2700 on an uninhabitable Earth, a dystopia covered in towers of garbage.
Dystopia definition: a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.. See examples of DYSTOPIA used in a sentence.
An imaginary place or condition in which everything is as bad as possible; opposed to utopia n. (cf. Cacotopia n. ). The Mundus Alter et Idem [of Joseph Hall] is..the opposite of eutopia, the ideal society: it is a dystopia, if it is permissible to coin a word. The ‘ dystopia ’ or ‘inverted utopia’.
A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ (dus) 'bad', and τόπος (tópos) 'place'), also called a cacotopia or anti-utopia, is a community or society that is extremely bad or frightening.
A dystopia is a fictional world where people live under a highly controlled, totalitarian system. In his novel "Brave New World," Aldous Huxley created a dystopia where individual identity is suppressed and families no longer exist. Yep, it’s pretty scary.
Britannica Dictionary definition of DYSTOPIA. [count] : an imaginary place where people are unhappy and usually afraid because they are not treated fairly — compare utopia.
noun. /dɪsˈtəʊpiə/ an imaginary place or state in which everything is extremely bad or unpleasant compare utopia. Word Origin. Join us. Join our community to access the latest language learning and assessment tips from Oxford University Press! See dystopia in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: dystopia.
