Noun: dystopia dis'tow-pee-u
- A work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation, oppression or terror
"The Handmaid's Tale is a chilling dystopia that explores themes of gender and power"
- State in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation, oppression or terror
"The novel portrayed a chilling dystopia where individual freedoms were completely suppressed"
Derived forms: dystopias
Antonym: utopia
Encyclopedia: Dystopia