1. State in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror 
2. A work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror

Derived forms: dystopias

See also: dystopian

Type of: fiction, state

Antonym: utopia

Encyclopedia: Dystopia

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