Usually means: Society characterized by human misery.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. dystopia: Merriam-Webster
  2. dystopia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dystopia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dystopia: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dystopia: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dystopia, dystopia: Wordnik
  7. dystopia: Wiktionary
  8. dystopia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. dystopia: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. dystopia: Dictionary.com
  11. dystopia: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Dystopia (Babes in Toyland album), Dystopia (Beneath the Massacre album), Dystopia (Dystopia album), Dystopia (Iced Earth album), Dystopia (Megadeth album), Dystopia (Midnight Juggernauts album), Dystopia (band), Dystopia (computer game), Dystopia (disambiguation), Dystopia (video game), Dystopia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. dystopia: Rhymezone
  14. dystopia: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  15. dystopia: FreeDictionary.org
  16. dystopia: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. dystopia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. dystopia: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. dystopia: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dystopia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. dystopia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Dystopia: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. dystopia: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dystopia: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living or severe censorship, oppression, etc.
noun:  (pathology) Anatomical tissue that is not found in its usual place.

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