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dystopic

dystopic adjective: characterised by dystopia.

Adjective

dystopic (comparative more dystopic, superlative most dystopic)

  1. Characterised by dystopia
  2. dystopian
    • The Red Holocaust is best interpreted in this light as the bitter fruit of an^([sic]) utopian gambit that was socially misengineered into a dystopic nightmare by despots in humanitarian disguise.2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240

Forms of dystopic

comparativemore dystopic
superlativemost dystopic

Origin of dystopic

From dystopia + -ic.

Words formed from dystopic

Questions about dystopic

What does dystopic mean?
Dystopic means characterised by dystopia.
What part of speech is dystopic?
Dystopic is an adjective.

Words near dystopic in the dictionary

  1. dystopianize
  2. dystopianized
  3. dystopianizes
  4. dystopianizing
  5. dystopias
  6. dystopic
  7. dystopical
  8. dystopically
  9. dystotic
  10. dystric
  11. dystrobrevin

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