dystopia

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As the colony is revealed to be an oppressive dystopia, a teenager named Takeru stumbles across a strange photograph of a girl on Earth.

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  1. noun An imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror.
  2. noun A work describing such a place or state: "dystopias such as Brave New World” (Times Literary Supplement).

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  • I recently learned a fancy word that describes my world: dystopia, which is the opposite of utopia. —  Devil'sBargain
  • (And here's one of Barry's upgrades to the Pohl-Kornbluth vision: his dystopia is velvet-lined, not that bad a place at all, and the reactions of his characters to it are ambivalent.) —  Asimov'sSF,Jan2004
  • Diastole, dykes and dystopia are all featured in Margaret Cho's latest comedic offering.
  • It's the aural embodiment of a crumbling dystopia, similar in feel to krautrockers such as Cluster and Neu!. —  Prefix
  • "[T] he film's ideas - on homegrown dystopia, everyday alienation - could only seem inventive to cultural retards," scoffs —  GreenCine Daily
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  1. dys- + (u)topia.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek δυσ-, hard, + τόπος, place.
 

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