utopian

See also: Utopian

English

Alternative forms

• Utopian

Etymology

From utopia +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /juːˈtəʊ.pi.ən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /juˈtoʊ.pi.ən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊpiən

Adjective

utopian (comparative more utopian, superlative most utopian)

1. Of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia.

   utopian happiness

   • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 27:

     The world we lived in was wide, and most of it was open to us with little trouble. Roads, railways, and shipping lines laced it, ready to carry one thousands of miles safely and in comfort. If we wanted to travel more swiftly still, and could afford it, we traveled by airplane. There was no need for anyone to take weapons or even precautions in those days. You could go just as you were to wherever you wished, with nothing to hinder you - other than a lot of forms and regulations. A world so tamed sounds utopian now.

2. Ideal but often impractical; visionary.

   a utopian project

   Synonym: utopic

   Antonym: dystopian

   • 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point‎, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104:

     The Great Society was never, in my mind, just a visionary utopian ideal. I considered it a realistic outline of what this nation could achieve in a limited period of time if we marshaled our will and committed our resources.

Synonyms

• unrealistic

Antonyms

• imperfect, pragmatic, realistic

Derived terms

• antiutopian
• cyberutopian
• nonutopian
• techno-utopian
• utopianise, utopianize
• utopianism
• utopianist
• utopianistic
• utopianly
• utopian socialism
• utopian socialist

Related terms

• utopic

Translations

of or pertaining to a utopia

Arabic: مثالي (miṯālī) Bulgarian: утопи́чен (bg) (utopíčen) Catalan: utòpic Chinese: Mandarin: 烏托邦的 / 乌托邦的 (wūtuōbāng de), 空想的 (kōngxiǎng de) Czech: utopický Danish: utopisk Dutch: utopisch (nl) Esperanto: utopia (eo) Estonian: utoopiline French: utopique (fr) Georgian: უტოპიური (uṭoṗiuri) German: utopisch (de) Greek: ουτοπικός (el) (outopikós) Irish: útóipeach Italian: utopistico (it) Kazakh: утопиялық (utopiälyq) Lithuanian: utopiškas Norwegian: Bokmål: utopisk Nynorsk: utopisk Portuguese: utópico (pt) Russian: утопи́ческий (ru) (utopíčeskij) Spanish: utópico (es) Yiddish: אוטאָפּיש (utopish)

Noun

utopian (plural utopians)

1. Someone who supports or heralds the establishment of a utopia.
   • 1941, Arthur Kissam Train, The Story of Everyday Things, Harper & Brothers, page 390:

     One of our brighter young Utopians, Aldous Huxley, predicts that the movies of the future will include “feelies” and “smellies.”

   • 2007 June 29, Michiko Kakutani, “The Cult of the Amateur”, in New York Times‎:

     Digital utopians have heralded the dawn of an era in which Web 2.0 […] ushers in the democratization of the world: more information, more perspectives, more opinions, more everything, and most of it without filters or fees.

Derived terms

• techno-utopian

Translations

someone who heralds the establishment of a utopia

Azerbaijani: xəyalpərəst Bulgarian: утопи́ст m (utopíst) Russian: утопи́ст (ru) m (utopíst), утопи́стка (ru) f (utopístka)

Anagrams

• opuntia

Finnish

Noun

utopian

1. genitive singular of utopia

Anagrams

• opuntia