dystopian

1. 1.

   of or pertaining to or resembling a dystopia
2. 2.

   as bad as can be; characterized by human misery

   “AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages”

   Antonymsutopian

Questions about dystopian

What does dystopian mean?

dystopian means "of or pertaining to or resembling a dystopia". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dystopian?

dystopian has 4 syllables: dy-sto-pi-an. The stress falls on "pi".

What is the opposite of dystopian?

The recorded antonyms are utopian.

Is dystopian a common word?

dystopian is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.