utopian

comparative more utopian · superlative most utopian · alternative Utopian

1. Of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia.

   utopian happiness

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   The world we lived in was wide, and most of it was open to us with little trouble. Roads, railways, and shipping lines laced it, ready to carry one thousands of miles safely and in comfort. If we wanted to travel more swiftly still, and could afford it, we traveled by airplane. There was no need for anyone to take weapons or even precautions in those days. You could go just as you were to wherever you wished, with nothing to hinder you - other than a lot of forms and regulations. A world so tamed sounds utopian now.

   1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 27

2. Ideal but often impractical; visionary.

   a utopian project

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   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.

   1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104

   Synonyms: utopic · Antonyms: dystopian

plural utopians · alternative Utopian

1. 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.”

   1941, Arthur Kissam Train, The Story of Everyday Things, Harper & Brothers, page 390

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   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.

   2007 June 29, Michiko Kakutani, “The Cult of the Amateur”, in New York Times

comparative more Utopian · superlative most Utopian

1. 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!

   1932 July 18, William H[enry] Dunphy, quotee, “Anti-Christian War Is Traced to Russia […

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   At the end of the first cantos, fresh from the description of the female college, with its professoresses, and hostleresses, and other Utopian monsters, […]

   1850 September, Charles Kingsley, “Tennyson”, in Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other Papers, author’s edition, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1859, →OCLC, page 187

plural Utopians

1. Alternative letter-case form of utopian.
2. fictionA 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.

   1998, Gerard B. Wegemer, Thomas More on Statesmanship

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