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

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   … 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

   It would be so much easier if homosexuality were accepted — period. "Coming out," that life-long process of letting people know that you are a certain way, and that you're upset by their homophobic actions, would not have to occur. 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