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noun. The definition of a dystopia is an imaginary place where the state of being is very bad or oppressive, the opposite of a utopia. An example of a dystopia is the world imagined in The Handmaidâs Tale by Margaret Atwood.
The problems that plague our world are often even more extreme in dystopias. Dystopia is a play on the made-up word ''utopia'' using the prefix ''dys,'' which means ''bad'' or ''difficult.'' Words like ''dysfunctional'' or ''dyslexia'' illustrate the use of this prefix.