Associations to the word «Dystopia»

Wiktionary

DYSTOPIA, noun. A vision of a future that is a corrupted (usually beyond recognition) utopian society.
DYSTOPIA, noun. A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living.
DYSTOPIA, noun. (medicine) Anatomical tissue that is not found in its usual place.

Dictionary definition

DYSTOPIA, noun. State in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror.
DYSTOPIA, noun. A work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne