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Grammar : Adj
Spell : yoo-toh-pee-uhn
Phonetic Transcription : yuˈtoʊ pi ən



Definition of utopian

Origin :
  • 1550s, with reference to More's fictional country; 1610s as "extravagantly ideal, impossibly visionary," from utopia + -ian. As a noun meaning "visionary idealist" it is first recorded c.1873 (earlier in this sense was utopiast, 1854).
  • adj imaginary, ideal
Example sentences :
  • And the gentle Utopian Emperor had tried in vain to be killed on the battle-field.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • The Utopian ideas which I have expressed have in no way the pretension to be new.
  • Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
  • The prudence which teaches one man to be a Whig, will make of another a Utopian.
  • Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford
  • But the recital of this Utopian dream was rudely interrupted.
  • Extract from : « Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer » by Cyrus Townsend Brady
  • Bob, thus forming his Utopian plans, forgot the tedium of the trail.
  • Extract from : « The Gaunt Gray Wolf » by Dillon Wallace
  • An Utopian dream it appears, if we note but one side of the picture.
  • Extract from : « Sex=The Unknown Quantity » by Ali Nomad
  • It was Utopian, being based, like all Utopian movements, upon abstract ideas.
  • Extract from : « Socialism » by John Spargo
  • It is not a Utopian and visionary theory, unsupported by experience.
  • Extract from : « The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 » by Various
  • This is not now, as it once might have been called, merely an Utopian dream.
  • Extract from : « The Psychology of Nations » by G.E. Partridge
  • What induces the Utopian child to work is, in brief, delight in his work.
  • Extract from : « What Is and What Might Be » by Edmond Holmes

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