Synonyms of dystopia

dystopia

noun

as in anti-utopia

Synonyms & Similar Words

• anti-utopia
• hell
• fool's paradise

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• utopia
• Eden
• paradise
• heaven
• Zion
• fantasyland
• Elysium
• nirvana
• New Jerusalem
• promised land
• Camelot
• Sion
• Cockaigne
• empyrean
• Shangri-la
• lotusland
• never-never land
• wonderland
• fairyland
• arcadia
• dreamland
• dreamworld

Examples of dystopia in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The prize should not be taken as a prediction of a science-fictional utopia or dystopia to come so much as a recognition of all the ways that AI has already changed the world. —Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024

An avant-garde fiction writer often likened to Kafka, her experimental style flips between utopia and dystopia and transforms the mundane into the surreal. —Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2024

Although the murderous alien is the films’ ostensible villain, Weyland-Yutani—an omnipresent monolith that’s sort of like if Tesla bought Netflix and was also the hospital—looms large over Alien’s grubby dystopia. —Fran Hoepfner, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024

Our present world is simultaneously moving toward the opposing dystopias of hypercentralization and endless fragmentation. —Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2018