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antidystopian

antidystopian adjective: opposing a dystopia.

Adjective

antidystopian (comparative more antidystopian, superlative most antidystopian)

  1. Opposing a dystopia.
    • However pessimistic their predictions, most scientists and scholars who warn of impending disaster are really acting from antidystopian motives.1996, George Thomas Kurian, Graham Thomas Tate Molitor, Encyclopedia of the future, volume 1, page 212
    • This is not a democratic program but a romantic antidystopian one, the sort of thing that is already foreshadowed in Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground and various back-to-nature ideologies.2009, David M. Kaplan, Readings in the Philosophy of Technology, page 140

Forms of antidystopian

comparativemore antidystopian
superlativemost antidystopian

Origin of antidystopian

From anti- + dystopian.

Questions about antidystopian

What does antidystopian mean?
Antidystopian means opposing a dystopia.
What part of speech is antidystopian?
Antidystopian is an adjective.

Words near antidystopian in the dictionary

  1. antidyslipidemics
  2. antidyspeptic
  3. antidyspeptics
  4. antidysrhythmic
  5. antidysrhythmics
  6. antidystopian
  7. antidystrophin
  8. antie
  9. antiearth
  10. antiearthquake
  11. antieavesdropping

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