utopian

See also: Utopian

English

Alternative forms

• Utopian

Etymology

From utopia +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /juˈtoʊpi.ən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

utopian (comparative more utopian, superlative most utopian)

1. Of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia.

   utopian happiness

2. Ideal but often impractical; visionary.

   a utopian project

   Synonym: utopic

   Antonym: dystopian

   • 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point‎^[1], 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

 

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

• 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^[2]:

     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