Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A world or realm of radically transformed existence, especially one in which technological progress has both positive and negative results.
Wiktionary
- n. An ambitious, often utopian, vision of the future.
- n. A significant change for the worse.
Etymologies
- After Brave New World, title of a novel by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963).
Examples
“New Bedford had been a town bereft of three-quarters of a generation of young men when those unlikely Pied Pipers, Roland Francis Clancey and Jeremy Bolt, had arrived, with the promise of a brave new world out beyond the frontier.”
“And as far as she could tell, the Allimir were the only ones in this brave new world who'd taken an oath of pacifism.”
The Warslayer
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