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Definition of "anti-utopia" []

  • An imaginary place or society characterized by human misery and oppression; a dystopia. (noun)
  • A work describing such a place or society. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "anti-utopia" in a sentence
  • "It is not translated yet but his famous and provocative anti-utopia about Russia's eternal fate - «ЖД» (in English it is titled Jewhad) will soon be on the bookshelves of real and virtual bookshops and I advise all readers and critics who vote for "intellectual" SciFi and "Gogol-style" Russian literature to pay attention to it."
  • "You are totally drawn in as this Istanbul of the year 2027 unfolds in a saga worthy of the Blade Runner tradition of anti-utopia fame."
  • "As James Cameron is gearing up to build a mammoth and unprecedented cybernetic anti-utopia in "Battle Angel Alita" it wouldn't be wise for Spielberg to mount something conceptually and thematically similar."
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