单词	subtopia
释义	subtopia /sʌbˈtəʊpɪə / noun [mass noun] British Unsightly, sprawling suburban development: I shall doubtless feel no more alien than anybody else in the prevailing subtopia because nobody will be working out of doors... Proposals for densification or adopting urban housing models are understandably slow to take root and have yet to make any discernible impact on the relentless march of subtopia. There are many varieties of downtown areas, and no two subtopias are alike. ‘The embers of the empire shimmer like a distant blood-soaked sunset as the urban subtopias of downtown blighty rumble to the rhythms of a brand new internationalism.’ Derivatives subtopian adjective ... My plan had been to head right through that subtopian labyrinth to the very edge, the scrubland beside the M57. I consider that even in the subtopian clutter of modern towns and cities, a stark beauty can sometimes be found. So now we fit in with the some of the other subtopian troglodytes in the area. Origin 1950s: blend of suburb and utopia. Rhymes cornucopia, dystopia, Ethiopia, myopia, Utopia
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