Antonyms for utopian

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

Synonyms for utopian

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