dystopia

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living or severe censorship, oppression, etc.
2. (countable, uncountable) Anatomical tissue that is not found in its usual place.

Opposite of

utopia

Synonyms

ectopia

allotopia

ectopy

heterotopia

malposition

dystopy

Translations

Dystopie

distopia

dystopie

distopia

contre-utopie

distopia

dystopie

distopía

distopie

Anti-Utopie

Gegenutopie

Mätopie

δυστοπία

antiutopie

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪs.ˈtəʊ.pi.ə/

Etymology

From dys- + -topia, as if from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”) + -ία (-ía), based on utopia being reinterpreted as eu-topia.