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DYSTOPIAN

• DYSTOPIAN (adjective)
The adjective DYSTOPIAN has 2 senses:

1. of or pertaining to or resembling a dystopia
2. as bad as can be; characterized by human misery

Familiarity information: DYSTOPIAN used as an adjective is rare.

• DYSTOPIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Of or pertaining to or resembling a dystopia

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

dystopia (state in which the condition of life is extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

As bad as can be; characterized by human misery

Context example:

AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages

Antonym:

utopian (characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection)

"Out of sight, out of mind."
(English proverb)
"A fish cannot live without water."
(Albanian proverb)
"Fortune visits only once."
(Armenian proverb)
"He who wins the first hand, leaves with only his pants in hand."
(Corsican proverb)

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