dystopia

Meaning

Noun

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

Related

Similar words

• cacotopia, kakotopia, anti-utopia
• ectopia, ectopy, heterotopia, malposition

Opposite words

• utopia

Origin

• From dys- + -topia, as if from Ancient Greek δυσ- ("bad") + τόπος + -ία, based on utopia, with the privative prefix u- which is coined from the Greek οὐ (ou, 'not; no').