unutopia

U1N1U1T1O1P3I1A1

noun

The antithesis of utopia; anti-utopia; dystopia.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

unutopia1

noununutopia (usually uncountable, plural unutopias)

plural unutopias · alternative Unutopia · alternative untopia

  1. uncountableusuallyThe antithesis of utopia; anti-utopia; dystopia.

    The unutopia was bizarrely unutopianly a thing, antiutopianly. Disutopianism.

    2013, Jason Hurlburt, ALLA NAZIMOVA IN GOOGOLPLEXNAIRE, page 78
    3 more examples

    The Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area had received $4 million from the Bureau of Public Roads, with which they had done a transportation study which of course produces a Utopia for automobiles, which is unutopia for human beings.

    1970, National transportation act, page 219

    But the bleakest Utopia of all, the very first of the Unutopias, had come from Wells long before that.

    1978, The Spectator, volume 240, number 1, page 25

    In the following excerpt, Keefer places A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder within the context of Canadian Maritime fiction, focusing on the narrative as an "unutopia" that questions the value of idealistic spiritual and political philosophies.

    2003, Laurie Lanzen Harris, Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism, volume 1213, page 112

Unutopia2

noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of unutopia.

Origin

Cite this entry
APA

unutopia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unutopia

MLA

“unutopia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unutopia. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unutopia,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unutopia.

Source: unutopia on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.