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Definition: Utopian |
UtopianAdjective1. Pertaining to or resembling Utopia; "a Utopian novel". 2. Being the best possible; characterized by ideal perfection; "the dim utopian future"; "utopian idealists"; "recognized the utopian nature of his hopes". Noun1. An idealistic (but usually impractical) social reformer; "a Utopian believes in the ultimate perfectibility of man". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Utopian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1644. (references) |
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Literature | Utopian An impracticable scheme for the improvement of society. Any scheme of profit or pleasure which is not practicable. (See Utopia .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Antonym: dystopian (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Hope | Adjective: hoping; Verb: in hopes; Noun: hopeful, confident; secure; (certain); sanguine, in good heart, buoyed up, buoyant, elated, flushed, exultant, enthusiastic; heartsome; utopian. |
Optimist, utopian, utopist. | |
Imagination | Romantic, high flown, flighty, extravagant, fanatic, enthusiastic, unrealistic, Utopian, Quixotic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Utopian |
| English words defined with "Utopian": Pantisocracy ♦ Utopianism, Utopianist, Utopical, Utopist. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Utopian": Utopical. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Utopian Society (2003) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Viking 2 Image of Mars Utopian Plain. Credit: NASA. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | In either case, it is both reactionary and Utopian. (reference) |
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| "Utopian" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.06% of the time. "Utopian" is used about 162 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 95.06% | 154 | 25,326 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.94% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 162 | N/A |
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Expression using "Utopian": utopian socialism. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "Utopian": utopian-sounding. | |
Ending with "Utopian": anti-utopian, non-utopian, semi-utopian, un-utopian. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Utopian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | utopist, utopik, ëndërrimtar (contemplative, daydreamer, dreamy, illusionist, lotus eater, star gazer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مثالي (exemplary, ideal, idealistic, model, perfect, platonic, starry eyed, typical, unearthly, visionary), وهمي (airy, airy fairy, astral, chimerical, delusive, delusory, dummy, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, made up, mirage, mythical, notional, paper, phantom, putative, quixotic, romantic, subjective, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary), خيالي (aerial, chimerical, conceptual, fancied, fanciful, fancy, fantast, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figment, ideal, ideational, imaginary, imaginative, impracticable, mythical, notional, quixotic, romantic, unreal, visionary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | утопист (visionary), утопичен (visionary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 乌托邦 (Utopia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | utopista, utopický. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | utopisk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | utopistisch, utopisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | utopia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | haihattelija (dreamer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | utopiste. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | utopisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χιμαιρικόσ (chimerical), ουτοπικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שאי ו תן לבצוע במציאות, אוטופי, "מיו י (airy fairy, fabulous, fairy, fancied, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, phantom, romantic, unreal, visionary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | utópisztikus, utópista (utopist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | utopistico, utopista. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | flaunyssagh (beatific, blissful, celestial, divine, heavenly, inhabitant of heaven, paradisiac). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opianutay utopista (doctrinaire). (various references) utopist (utopist), utopic. (various references) утопический. (various references) utopista, utopijski. (various references) utópista, utópico. (various references) utopisk (ideal), verklighetsfrämmande (otherworldly). (various references) ideal (aim, apotheosis, dream, dreamboat, goal, ideal, mission, optimal, optimum, pattern, soaring), gerçekleşmesi imkânsız, düşsel (fictional, imaginary, unreal, visionary), ütopyacı, ütopist, ütopik. (various references) утопіст, утопічний. (various references) người theo chủ nghĩa không tưởng, người không tưởng, không tưởng (fantastic, reverie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "Utopian": utopianism, utopianisms, utopians. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Utopian": nonutopian. (additional references) | |
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"Utopian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atopia, etopia, Okopyan, Otopen, Otopeni, suttonian, tobiano, turonian, Ucopia, untopian, utiopia, utonia, utopain, utopea. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Utopian" (pronounced yuwtō"pēun) |
| 4 | -p ē u n | Campion, champion, scorpion, thespian. |
| 3 | -ē u n | accordion, agrarian, alien, amphibian, arcadian, authoritarian, barbarian, bohemian, carrion, centenarian, centurion, chameleon, circadian, Clarion, collodion, comedian, contrarian, criterion, custodian, Cyprian, disciplinarian, draconian, egalitarian, equestrian, galleon, gorgonian, Guardian, halcyon, herculean, historian, humanitarian, hyperborean, lesbian, libertarian, librarian, majoritarian, mammalian, median, mediterranean, meridian, Napoleon, nickelodeon, nonsectarian, oblivion, obsidian, octogenarian, Odeon, ovarian, pagurian, parliamentarian, pedestrian, planarian, plutonian, praetorian, presbyterian, proletarian, salutatorian, sectarian, seminarian, septuagenarian, simian, subterranean, symbion, theologian, totalitarian, unitarian, utilitarian, valedictorian, valerian, vegetarian, veterinarian. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: opuntia. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-n-o-p-t-u" | |
-1 letter: utopia. | |
-2 letters: inapt, input, paint, panto, patin, patio, piano, pinot, pinta, pinto, piton, point, punto, puton, unapt. | |
-3 letters: anti, atop, aunt, auto, into, iota, naoi, nipa, nota, pain, pant, pian, pina, pint, pion, pita, pout, puna, punt, tain, topi, tuna, unai, unit, unto, upon. | |
-4 letters: ain, ait, ani, ant, apt, ion, nap, nip, nit. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-n-o-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: opuntias, outpaint, pupation, utopians. | |
+2 letters: abruption, outpacing, outpaints, plutonian, pulsation, pupations, purgation, rainspout, supinator. | |
+3 letters: abruptions, amputation, assumption, autopsying, copulating, copulation, deputation, euphoriant, imputation, nonutopian, occupation, outleaping, outpainted, outpassing, outpatient, outplaying, outpraying, peculation, populating, population, precaution, pulsations, punctation, purgations, rainspouts, reputation, supination, supinators, usurpation, utopianism. | |
+4 letters: amputations, antipopular, aponeurotic, assumptions, computation, copulations, cupellation, cuspidation, deputations, disputation, duplication, euphoriants, exculpation, expurgation, importunate, imputations, inculpation, inculpatory, juxtaposing, manipulator, mountaintop, neuropathic, occupations, outcapering, outpainting, outpatients, outplanning, outspanning, outspeaking, parturition, peculations, permutation, populations, postnuptial, postulating, postulation, precautions, procuration, proteinuria, publication, pullulation, punctations, punctuation, pustulation, repudiation, reputations, speculation, spiculation, sporulating, sporulation, stipulation, supernation, supinations, suppuration, suspiration, uncaptioned, unimportant, unpatriotic, unpolitical, usurpations, utopianisms. | |
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