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utopian

If you're looking to relocate to a utopia, good luck! A utopia is an ideal society, and a scheme or vision for producing such a society can be called utopian.

In 1516, the English philosopher Thomas More published Utopia, a book about an island nation with the perfect form of government. This novel gave us the adjective utopian, which can be used to describe plans for or works of fiction depicting ideal societies. Dystopian literature, by contrast, describes nightmarishly repressive worlds. It's ironic that More himself may have conceived of his Utopia as a dystopia, or at least a satire. The name of More's novel is anglicized Greek for "no place" — which makes a lot of sense if you think about it.

DEFINITIONS OF: utopian

1

adj of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia

Synonyms:
Utopian

adj characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection

“the dim utopian future”
utopian idealists”
“recognized the utopian nature of his hopes”
Synonyms
perfect
being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish
Laputan, airy, impractical, visionary, windy
not practical or realizable; speculative
Antonyms:
dystopian
as bad as can be; characterized by human misery
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