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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.
dystopian Utopian describes a society that's conceived to be perfect. Dystopian is the exact opposite â it describes an imaginary society that is as dehumanizing and as unpleasant as possible. George Orwell's Animal Farm, for example, describes a dystopian society in which Napoleon, a pig, represents Joseph Stalin in a farmyard satire on Stalinist Russia and how power corrupts. Other famous dystopian authors include Aldous Huxley, Kurt Vonnegut, and Ray Bradbury. The adjective dystopian describes anything that pertains to or resembles a society such as those described in this sort of literature.