DYSTOPIA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("dystopia" is a kind of...):

fiction (a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact)

Meaning:

State in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("dystopia" is a kind of...):

state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)

Antonym:

utopia (ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects)

Derivation:

dystopian (as bad as can be; characterized by human misery)

dystopian (of or pertaining to or resembling a dystopia)