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DYSTOPIAN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

As bad as can be; characterized by human misery

Example:

AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages

Classified under:

Adjectives

Antonym:

utopian (characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection)

Derivation:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or pertaining to or resembling a dystopia

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

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

Derivation:

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

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