pronunciation: dis’tohpeeuh
noun: an imaginary world in which everything is as bad as it can possibly be (opposed to utopia).
adjective: dystopian
origin: ‘dys’ + (u)topia, antonym for utopia, as if it were *eutopia good place; coined by JS Mill, 1806–73.
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