dystopian

[ UK /dɪstˈə‍ʊpi‍ən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. as bad as can be; characterized by human misery
    AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages
  2. of or pertaining to or resembling a dystopia
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How To Use dystopian In A Sentence

  • The best movie of the year, which no one saw, is Mike Judge's Idiocracy, a terrifying vision of a dystopian future in which language has deteriorated to a series of agrammatical corporate logos, the only mention of history is a vague assertion that "the dinosaurs were wiped out by the Nazis," and anyone who speaks in full sentences is derided as a "fag. Frankie Thomas: On Becoming Adequite: or, Why Lindsay Lohan Wasn't Cast in The History Boys
  • It's all packed into this two-hour dystopian space odyssey. Times, Sunday Times
  • That is why there is such a rich future for people of color in science fiction and fantasy, because the genre allows us to speculate on our future whether utopian or dystopian.
  • In Lee's dystopian vision of the world of entertainment, television is all-powerful and all-corrupting.
  • Try to forget those wretched sequels and endless inferior imitators, because this stylish dystopian sci-fi thriller still stands up as a dazzling pinnacle of highbrow pulp cinema. Times, Sunday Times
  • Emotional disconnect, man-machine sexual politics, dystopian futurism, German electronic-music fetishes - Bowie was post-millennial before we even hit 1980.
  • This nostalgic embrace of primitiveness leads dystopians to interpret every technological advance as another step toward an ultimately dehumanized existence.
  • I realized that he's right, it's easy to write (and think) in dystopian terms, and it's harder to be both optimistic and realistic -- or, inspiring, even -- about the future. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Gord Sellar
  • I also seem to recall a hefty children's fantasy quartet in which families are assigned colors (browns, reds, yellows) according to a strict caste system, but I can't remember the name of the book, and I'm not sure if it would actually qualify as dystopian. New Notes, Back to School edition
  • Neither do I agree with the even more dystopian picture of entire nation states now under threat from the new terrorist activities.
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