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utopic

utopic adjective: seeming to originate in utopia; utopian.

Adjective

utopic (comparative more utopic, superlative most utopic)

  1. Seeming to originate in utopia; utopian
    • They dismissed the work as utopic, unpractical.1850, Antonio Carlo N. Gallenga (L. Mariotti), Scenes from Italian life, pg. 133
    • … and those issues and the potentialities out of which they arise are such as would to any previous age, could it have so much as conceived them, have seemed the distant problems of utopic speculation.1919, Robert Briffault, The Making of Humanity, G. Allen & Unwin ltd., pg. 247

Examples of utopic in a sentence

  • Of course I'm speaking in utopic terms; this won't happen for a long time, if ever.1986 August 16, Dan Kaufman, “Confused at 18: A Friend's Advice”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 5, page 11:
  • By contrast, in the utopic vision of Hilton and Capra it is space which is traversed and not time; both utopic and dystopic exist in the same moment but occupy a different terrain.2000, Tom Brass, Peasants, Populism, and Postmodernism: The Return of the Agrarian Myth, Routledge, →ISBN, page 243:

Forms of utopic

comparativemore utopic
superlativemost utopic

Origin of utopic

From utopia + -ic.

Words formed from utopic

Questions about utopic

What does utopic mean?
Utopic means seeming to originate in utopia; utopian.
How do you use utopic in a sentence?
Of course I'm speaking in utopic terms; this won't happen for a long time, if ever.
What part of speech is utopic?
Utopic is an adjective.

Words near utopic in the dictionary

  1. utopias
  2. utopiast
  3. utopiasts
  4. utopiate
  5. utopiates
  6. utopic
  7. utopical
  8. utopism
  9. utopisms
  10. utopist
  11. utopistic

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