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Definition of utopian
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Synonyms & Antonyms for utopian
Synonyms: Adjective
idealist, idealistic, quixotic, quixotical, romantic, starry, starry-eyed, visionary
Synonyms: Noun
Don Quixote, dreamer, fantast, idealist, idealizer, ideologue (also idealogue), romantic, romanticist, visionary
Antonyms: Adjective
Antonyms: Noun
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Examples of utopian in a Sentence
Adjective
a plan to revitalize the city's decaying downtown that proved to be overly ambitious and utopianNoun
in the 19th century utopians founded a number of short-lived socialist communitiesRecent Examples on the Web: Adjective
Its leaders have spoken about the Internetās utopian possibilities: allowing maximum transparency, with everybody having a say. — Washington Post, "With online poll, Italy moves closer to formation of a new government," 4 Sep. 2019 The only major anniversary festival to have ever be held at the original farmsite in Bethel, New York -- which despite a weekās worth of music, tens of thousands of attendees and a utopian sense of community has been almost completely lost to time? — Bobby Olivier, Billboard, "The Forgotten Woodstock: The Oral History of Woodstock '89, The Impromptu Little Festival That Could," 15 Aug. 2019 Hereās your Teen Vogue starter guide to demystify this most utopian vision. — Teen Vogue, "What is Universal Basic Income (UBI)?," 20 Aug. 2019 And they might be seen as exemplars of a school of national painting that fused ideas about landscape with ideals of governance, a body of work that not only delighted the eyes, but engaged the mind in utopian speculation. — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, "Philadelphia might have been a sylvan Athens. Instead, we got Washington, our muddy Rome.," 1 Aug. 2019 The question remains: Can New Harmony thrive while retaining a connection to its utopian roots? — Diana Budds, Curbed, "This small Indiana town is a hotbed of utopianism," 5 Aug. 2019 That, at least, is the utopian version of the smart home that exists 10 years out. — Patrick Lucas Austin, Time, "What Will Smart Homes Look Like 10 Years From Now?," 25 July 2019 As time went by, however, Davenportās fiction began to explore the ideas of utopian socialist Charles Fourier. — Michael Dirda, National Review, "The Exhilarating Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner," 25 July 2019 No treaty, no matter how just or generous, could puncture the utopian delusions that were displacing the political and religious beliefs of entire populations. — Joseph Loconte, WSJ, "The Versailles Treaty Gets a Bum Rap," 27 June 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Early cyberspace utopians thought censorship would soon be obsolete: the internet would treat it as a broken node and route around it. — The Economist, "The unacknowledged legislators of the online world," 14 June 2019 Then there were all those annoying Tolstoyansāvegetarians, fruit-juice drinkers, utopians of every stripeāher husband encouraged to hang around the house. — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, "Your Spouse Is No Prize? Maybe You Deserve a Nobel," 11 May 2018 For now, the local government seems receptive toward the crypto utopians; the governor will speak at their blockchain summit conference, called Puerto Crypto, in March. — Nellie Bowles, New York Times, "Making a Crypto Utopia in Puerto Rico," 2 Feb. 2018 There have always been plenty of intellectuals and other utopians who ignore this basic truth, of course. — Elliot Kaufman, National Review, "Earth to Senator Murphy: Politics Wonāt Solve All of Our Problems," 28 July 2017 Digital nomadism, as an update to both the old hippie trail and get-rich-quick fantasies, unsurprisingly attracts dreamers and utopians, people prone to feelings of betrayal by those who donāt live up to their own ideals. — Benjamin Wallace, Daily Intelligencer, "The Culthopping Twins Who Have Been Evangelicals, Rappers, and Digital Nomads," 12 July 2017 But if the techno-utopians get carried away in their exuberance, Taplin sometimes veers too far in the other direction. — Emily Parker, Orange County Register, "āMove Fastā an eye-opening look at real cost of pirated music," 15 May 2017 For years, technologists and other utopians have argued that online news would be a boon to democracy. — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, "How the Internet Is Loosening Our Grip on the Truth," 2 Nov. 2016These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'utopian.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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