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DYSTOPIAN
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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:
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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