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utopian

/yoo-toh-pee-uhn/US // yuˈtoʊ pi ən //UK // (juːˈtəʊpɪən) sometimes not capital //

乌托邦,乌托邦式的,乌托邦式,乌托邦的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or resembling Utopia, an idealized imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's Utopia.
    • : founded upon or involving idealized perfection.
    • : given to impractical or unrealistic schemes of such perfection.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an inhabitant of Utopia.
    • : an ardent but impractical political or social reformer; visionary; idealist.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Petro Poroshenko proposes a utopian solution to the problem.

  • “Only in retrospect did we appreciate our good fortune in being part of a utopian experiment in American journalism,” she writes.

  • When you were setting out to work on The Giver, what planted the seed for this dark, utopian society?

  • He calls the proposal “utopian,” and that is probably generous.

  • An economy that could help us be better than that is possible, not utopian.

  • Instead of this, he embarked the money in some Utopian scheme for pearl fishing at Panama, and lost all!

  • This was in itself a Utopian experience for Thyrsis, who had never before taken a trip in one of these magic chariots.

  • Moreover, these Utopian Socialists were almost without exception Freemasons or members of other secret societies.

  • What utopian dreams were whispered into ears into which the eddying waters were intoning a refrain!

  • But the Socialists of to-day have nothing in common with such Utopian ideas as those I have described.

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