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See also: Utopian
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- (General American) IPA(key): /juˈtoʊpi.ən/
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utopian (comparative more utopian, superlative most utopian)
- Of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia.
- utopian happiness
- Ideal but often impractical; visionary.
- 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point[1], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104:
- The Great Society was never, in my mind, just a visionary utopian ideal. I considered it a realistic outline of what this nation could achieve in a limited period of time if we marshaled our will and committed our resources.
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of or pertaining to a utopia
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Noun[edit]
utopian (plural utopians)
- Someone who supports or heralds the establishment of a utopia.
- 1941, Arthur Kissam Train, The Story of Everyday Things, Harper & Brothers, page 390:
- One of our brighter young Utopians, Aldous Huxley, predicts that the movies of the future will include “feelies” and “smellies.”
- 2007 June 29, Michiko Kakutani, “The Cult of the Amateur”, in New York Times[2]:
- Digital utopians have heralded the dawn of an era in which Web 2.0 […] ushers in the democratization of the world: more information, more perspectives, more opinions, more everything, and most of it without filters or fees.
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someone who heralds the establishment of a utopia
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