utopian

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia.

   • utopian happiness
2. 2

   Ideal but often impractical

   Ideal but often impractical; visionary.

   • a utopian project
   • The Great Society was never, in my mind, just a visionary utopian ideal. I considered it a realistic outline of what this nation could achieve in a limited period of time if we marshaled our will and committed our resources.
3. 3

   Someone who supports or heralds the establishment of a utopia.

   • One of our brighter young Utopians, Aldous Huxley, predicts that the movies of the future will include “feelies” and “smellies.”
   • Digital utopians have heralded the dawn of an era in which Web 2.0 […] ushers in the democratization of the world: more information, more perspectives, more opinions, more everything, and most of it without filters or fees.
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   1. 4

      Alternative letter-case form of utopian.

      • [I]f it sounds Utopian to say that Christianity can save the world—remember, it is Utopia or hell!
   2. 5

      A person from Utopia, a fictional island possessing a seemingly perfect…

      A person from Utopia, a fictional island possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system from Thomas More’s 1516 book of the same name.

      • As unusual as these official games may appear, they constitute an integral part in teaching the machiavellian tactics which the Utopians proudly use in their foreign wars.
   3. 6

      A constructed language created by Thomas More and Peter Giles for the fictional island…

      A constructed language created by Thomas More and Peter Giles for the fictional island Utopia, from Thomas More’s 1516 book of the same name.

The neighborhood

• synonymunrealistic
• synonymvisionary
• antonymimperfect
• antonympragmatic
• antonymrealistic
• neighborutopic