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dystopic en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English dystopia Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English dystopic From dystopia + -ic.

Meanings

  1. Characterised by dystopia
  2. dystopian
    • The Red Holocaust is best interpreted in this light as the bitter fruit of an^([sic]) utopian gambit that was socially misengineered into a dystopic nightmare by despots in humanitarian disguise. 2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240:

Forms

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more dystopic Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most dystopic Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

dystopically