| dystopia definitions |
| # | Definition | Sets |
| 1 | imaginary place where living conditions are dreadful | 65 sets |
| 2 | a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding. | 11 sets |
| 3 | a work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror | 9 sets |
| 4 | see utopia | 9 sets |
| 5 | bad place | 6 sets |
| 6 | a nightmarish, hellish place | 4 sets |
| 7 | a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding | 4 sets |
| 8 | imaginary place where living conditions are dreadful. | 4 sets |
| 9 | a world that is supposed to be perfect but turns horribly wrong... | 3 sets |
| 10 | place where all is as bad as possible | 3 sets |
| 11 | imaginary place where living conditions are dreadful (ant utopia) | 2 sets |
| 12 | imaginary place where living conditions are dreadful (ant. utopia) | 2 sets |
| 13 | imaginary place were living conditions are dreadful | 2 sets |
| 14 | an imaginary place where people live dehumanized, often fearful lives. | 2 sets |
| 15 | an imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad. | 2 sets |
| 16 | a society characterized by human misery | 2 sets |
| 17 | the opposite of utopia | 2 sets |
| 18 | an imaginary world that was constructed to be perfect, yet failed. an imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror. ex: brave new world | 1 set |
| 19 | aziz and cucher 1994 | 1 set |
| 20 | noun an imaginary place or society in which everything is bad. derivatives dystopian adjective & noun origin from dys- + utopia. | 1 set |
| 21 | hypothetical place, society, or situation in which conditions and the quality of life are dreadful | 1 set |
| 22 | some organs begin development in one part of the body then move as they mature...this does not | 1 set |
| 23 | "bad place" an imaginary world which was constructed to be perfect yet failed. present tendencies are carried out to their intensely unpleasant end | 1 set |
| 24 | an imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror or a work describing such a place. | 1 set |
| 25 | iaginary place where living conditions are dreadful | 1 set |
| 26 | imaginary placae where living conditions are dreadful | 1 set |
| 27 | imaginary place where living conditions are dreadful (utopia) | 1 set |
| 28 | ant. utopia | 1 set |
| 29 | an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives | 1 set |
| 30 | a futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained, through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control. an imaginary place or condition where everything is bad | 1 set |
| 31 | a world that seems perfect but turns out to be deeply flawed | 1 set |
| 32 | an imaginary place where everything is as bad as it can be | 1 set |
| 33 | the opposite of an utopia; greek for "bad place". usually set in the future and describes an unpleasant, disastrous, or terrifying society or world. | 1 set |
| 34 | a | 1 set |
| 35 | an imaginary place where everything is as bad as it can beĀ | 1 set |
| 36 | opposite of utopia, a society where social and technological advances have served to aid corruption | 1 set |
| 37 | the failure of an embryologic structure to move into it final adult position during development | 1 set |
| 38 | opposite of utopia | 1 set |
| 39 | an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives (anti-utopia) | 1 set |
| 40 | an imaginary place where people live often dehumanized, fearful lives | 1 set |