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CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.
Heather Brooke

Meaning of "dystopia" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DYSTOPIA

(Coined by John Stuart Mill): from dys- + Utopia.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DYSTOPIA

dystopia  [dɪsˈtəʊpɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DYSTOPIA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dystopia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DYSTOPIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Dystopia

A dystopia is a community or society that is in some important way undesirable or frightening. It is the opposite of a utopia. Such societies appear in many artistic works, particularly in stories set in a future. Dystopias are often characterized by dehumanization, totalitarian governments, environmental disaster, or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society. Dystopian societies appear in many sub-genres of fiction and are often used to draw attention to real-world issues regarding society, environment, politics, economics, religion, psychology, ethics, science, and/or technology, which if unaddressed could potentially lead to such a dystopia-like condition. Famous depictions of dystopian societies include R.U.R. ; Nineteen Eighty-Four, which takes place in a totalitarian invasive super state; Brave New World, where the human population is placed under a caste of psychological allocation; Fahrenheit 451...

Definition of dystopia in the English dictionary

The definition of dystopia in the dictionary is an imaginary place where everything is as bad as it can be.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DYSTOPIA


amblyopia
ˌæmblɪˈəʊpɪə
anisometropia
ænˌaɪsəʊməˈtrəʊpɪə
cacotopia
ˌkækəˈtəʊpɪə
cecropia
sɪˈkrəʊpɪə
cornucopia
ˌkɔːnjʊˈkəʊpɪə
diplopia
dɪˈpləʊpɪə
ectopia
ɛkˈtəʊpɪə
esotropia
ˌɛsəˈtrəʊpɪə
Ethiopia
ˌiːθɪˈəʊpɪə
exotropia
ˌeksəˈtrəʊpɪə
hemianopia
ˌhɛmɪænˈəʊpɪə
heterotopia
ˌhɛtərəʊˈtəʊpɪə
hyperopia
ˌhaɪpəˈrəʊpɪə
myopia
maɪˈəʊpɪə
photopia
fəʊˈtəʊpɪə
pornotopia
ˌpɔːnəˈtəʊpɪə
presbyopia
ˌprɛzbɪˈəʊpɪə
scotopia
skəˈtəʊpɪə
subtopia
sʌbˈtəʊpɪə
Utopia
juːˈtəʊpɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DYSTOPIA

dystaxic
dystectic
dysteleological
dysteleologist
dysteleology
dysthesia
dysthetic
dysthymia
dysthymiac
dysthymic
dysthymic disorder
dystocia
dystocial
dystonia
dystonic
dystopian
dystrophia
dystrophic
dystrophin
dystrophy

WORDS THAT END LIKE DYSTOPIA

ametropia
anopia
asthenopia
atropia
deuteranopia
emmetropia
haplopia
hemeralopia
hemiopia
hypermetropia
isometropia
meropia
nyctalopia
palinopia
protanopia
senopia
tritanopia

Synonyms and antonyms of dystopia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dystopia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DYSTOPIA

Find out the translation of dystopia to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dystopia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dystopia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

反乌托邦
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

distopía
570 millions of speakers

English

dystopia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

तबाह देश
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الواقع المرير
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

антиутопия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

distopia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

dystopia
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dystopie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dystopia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Dystopie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ディストピア
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

디스토피아
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dystopia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dystopia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நெறியில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

डायस्टोपिया
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

distopya
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

distopia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

antyutopia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

антиутопія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

distopie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δυστοπία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

distopie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dystopia
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dystopi
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dystopia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DYSTOPIA»

The term «dystopia» is quite widely used and occupies the 46.035 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DYSTOPIA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dystopia

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5 QUOTES WITH «DYSTOPIA»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dystopia.
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Heather Brooke
CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.
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Ally Condie
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
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Ally Condie
When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.
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Alex Cox
The future is always a dystopia in movies.
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Anthony Horowitz
Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DYSTOPIA»

Discover the use of dystopia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dystopia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Futures Beyond Dystopia: Creating Social Foresight
This fascinating book will stimulate anyone involved in Futures work around the world and will challenge practitioners and others to re-examine many of their assumptions, methodologies and practices.
Richard Slaughter, 2004
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Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility
From colonial and postcolonial Africa to pre-Marxist and Stalinist Eastern Europe, from the social life of fossil fuels to dreams of nuclear power, and from everyday politics in contemporary India to imagined architectures of postwar ...
Michael D. Gordin, Helen Tilley, Gyan Prakash, 2010
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: Science Between Utopia and Dystopia
Just fifty years ago Julian Huxley, the biologist grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, published a book which easily could be seen to represent the prevail ing outlook among young scientists of the day: If I were a Dictator (1934).
Everett Mendelsohn, H. Nowotny, 1984
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Dystopia
What happens when the first people to feel hate start a genocide against the rest of the world? Chaos. Slaughter. Destruction. My name is James Brady, and this is my story.
Nealay Vasavda, 2013
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Tenses of Imagination: Raymond Williams on Science Fiction, ...
This volume brings together a complete collection of Williams's critical essays on science fiction and futurology, Utopia, and dystopia, in literature, film, television, and politics, and with extracts from his two future novels, The ...
Raymond Williams, Andrew Milner, 2010
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Between Utopia and Dystopia: Erasmus, Thomas More, and the ...
Between Utopia and Dystopia is a study of the movement that created the identity of the universal intellectual: Erasmian humanism.
Hanan Yoran, 2010
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Utopia/dystopia: Geoffrey James
A major retrospective survey celebrating one of Canada's greatest landscape photographers, Geoffrey James.
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Economic Liberalization and Political Violence: Utopia Or ...
Gerd Sch[]nwSlder is the Director of Policy and Planning at IDRC, where he previously led the Peace, Conflict, and Development program. --Book Jacket.
Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín, Francisco Gutiérrez, Gerd Schönwälder, 2010
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Scraps of the Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia
From the classical works by E. M. Forster, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, through the new maps of hell in postwar science fiction, and most recently in the dystopian turn of the 1980s and 1990s, this ...
Thomas Moylan, 2000
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Dystopia Now
It is the Late Depression--Los Angeles, California.
Harvey Hiestand, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DYSTOPIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dystopia is used in the context of the following news items.
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Lucha Britannia: Mexico's iconic wrestling lands the UK to entertain …
Well, although Lucha Britannia is apparently set in a future-present dystopia called the “RetroFutureVerse”, its all-inclusive philosophy does ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
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Frankie Boyle condemns George Osborne for cuts so inhumane …
... Chancellor has only served to propel society so much closer to dystopia that science fiction "now only has to be set 18 months in the future". «The Independent, Jul 15»
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An Expert's Guide to Racing Movies: the Good, the Bad and the Corny
I detest movies about a dystopia future, anything that is just savage wrecking of machines and in general films that are shot unnecessarily dark. «The Independent Florida Alligator, Jul 15»
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The Islamic State's politics of blood
... to the macabre dystopia that has descended on West Asia and North Africa. Even though 62 nation-states are now engaged in fighting the IS, ... «The Indian Express, Jul 15»
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“The Bad Batch” Promises To Be 2016's “Mad Max: Fury Road”
“A highly twisted, unusual, romantic, and innovative movie set in a future dystopia. In a desert wasteland in Texas, a muscled cannibal breaks ... «Inside Pulse, Jul 15»
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A Summer Reading List for Those Who Crave the Eclectic
This is not a happy adventure dystopia. This is a day-after-tomorrow novel of intense suspense. Like most knives, this one cuts both ways, ... «KQED, Jul 15»
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Adaptation of Ayn Rand Novella [ai] to Play the Brick, 8/6-21
[ai] is a new adaptation of Ayn Rand's novella, Anthem, in which one man goes on a journey in pursuit of individuality in a totalitarian dystopia, ... «Broadway World, Jul 15»
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Vicious EU will let Athens burn for failed Euro dystopia
The ruthlessness of EU leaders to sacrifice the people of Greece for the Euro is further evidence for why we need to Get Britain Out of the EU. «The Commentator, Jul 15»
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Digi Locker: Dreamland or Dystopia?
What would you do if en route to a college for admission, you realize that you have lost all original documents you were carrying? By the time ... «The Hans India, Jul 15»
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Book Talk: Subprimes depicts dystopia built on unregulated capitalism
While many writers were writing about different types of dystopia, I felt the most likely cause of the greatest duress and trauma for the population ... «BusinessWorld Online Edition, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Dystopia [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/dystopia>. Apr 2024 ».
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