| 单词 | utopian |
| 释义 | utopian (once / 29112 pages) adj If you're looking to relocate to a utopia, good luck! A utopia is an ideal society, and a scheme or vision for producing such a society can be called utopian. In 1516, the English philosopher Thomas More published Utopia, a book about an island nation with the perfect form of government. This novel gave us the adjective utopian, which can be used to describe plans for or works of fiction depicting ideal societies. Dystopian literature, by contrast, describes nightmarishly repressive worlds. It's ironic that More himself may have conceived of his Utopia as a dystopia, or at least a satire. The name of More's novel is anglicized Greek for "no place" — which makes a lot of sense if you think about it. WORD FAMILYutopia: utopian, utopias USAGE EXAMPLES“Eyebeam was born at a time, in the late ’90s, when thinking around technology was naïve and utopian,” he said. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) But in the New York of the 1980s and 1990s, clubs were somehow both utopian and forbidding. New York Times(Dec 21, 2016) The utopian communist idea competed directly with capitalism and lost. Wall Street Journal(Dec 16, 2016) 1adj of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia Syn Utopian 2adj characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection the dim utopian future utopian idealists recognized the utopian nature of his hopes Syn|Ant perfect being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish Laputan, airy, impractical, visionary, windynot practical or realizable; speculative dystopian as bad as can be; characterized by human misery Utopian (once / 6376 pages) adjn WORD FAMILY Utopian: Utopianism, Utopians+/Utopia: Utopian, Utopias/Utopianism: Utopianisms USAGE EXAMPLESBuilding on the earlier Garden City movement, Silkin presented a Utopian vision. BBC(Nov 10, 2016) Unabashedly populist and Utopian, the M5S can also be sternly pragmatic. Economist(Oct 20, 2016) Utopians tend to be skeptical when it comes to talk of human nature and, indeed, of humanism in any recognizable form. The New Yorker(Sep 26, 2016) 1adj of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia a Utopian novel Syn utopian 2n an idealistic (but usually impractical) social reformer a Utopian believes in the ultimate perfectibility of man Hyper crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer a disputant who advocates reform |
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