utopian
pronunciation
How to pronounce utopian in British English:
UK [ju:'təʊpɪən]
How to pronounce utopian in American English:
US [juˈtopiən]
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- Adjective:
- characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection
Word Origin
- utopian (adj.)
- 1550s, with reference to More's fictional country; 1610s as "extravagantly ideal, impossibly visionary," from utopia + -an. As a noun meaning "visionary idealist" it is recorded by 1832 (also in this sense was utopiast, 1845).
Example
- 1. This utopian impulse inevitably went hand-in-hand with benevolent bossiness .
- 2. But I don 't accept fela 's utopian view of african traditions .
- 3. Unfortunately , the alternatives sound utopian .
- 4. He believed his own utopian propaganda .
- 5. But many other towns were monuments to the utopian spirit .