dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/uto_MW.json

{
  "Uto-Aztecan":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a family of American Indian languages spoken by peoples from the U.S. Great Basin south to Central America":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1891, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Ute + -o- + Aztec":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccy\u00fc-t\u014d-\u02c8az-\u02ccte-k\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-005037",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "utopia":{
    "antonyms":[
      "anti-utopia",
      "dystopia",
      "hell"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions":[],
      ": an imaginary and indefinitely remote place":[],
      ": an impractical scheme for social improvement":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "The town's founders wanted to create a Christian utopia .",
      "It's a nice place to live, but it's no Utopia .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Having one in a lifetime is a blessing, having two is a utopia that only happens when all things converge precisely at the right time. \u2014 Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News , 11 June 2022",
      "Ukraine was never a utopia for gays and transgender people, but activists there say things have improved over the years. \u2014 David Toledo, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
      "Woodrow Wilson High School was not, and is not, a utopia . \u2014 New York Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "One of the most prominent architecture firms in the world is designing a new metaverse -- a virtual city that hopes to be a libertarian utopia . \u2014 CNN , 22 Mar. 2022",
      "Once created to be a utopia for its citizens, the deep-sea metropolis fell into chaos after the discovery of ADAM, a gene-altering substance used to create serums that could give humans superhuman abilities. \u2014 Nick Romano, EW.com , 15 Feb. 2022",
      "In his telling, before the trauma of a disastrous war and the insult of occupation, southern life had been something close to a biracial utopia . \u2014 Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books , 8 June 2022",
      "The utopia of Dickens\u2019s fiction, also impossibly outdated today, maybe even outdated in 1850, is the domestic idyll. \u2014 The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "In Ice Trilogy, Sorokin took sci-fi\u2014a genre the Soviets used to depict Communism as a technologically advanced utopia \u2014and told the story of a violent mystical cult that blends in seamlessly with the secret police. \u2014 Jennifer Wilson, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1533, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Utopia , imaginary and ideal country in Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More, from Greek ou not, no + topos place":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "yu\u0307-\u02c8t\u014d-p\u0113-\u0259"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "Camelot",
      "Cockaigne",
      "Eden",
      "Elysium",
      "empyrean",
      "fantasyland",
      "heaven",
      "lotusland",
      "never-never land",
      "New Jerusalem",
      "nirvana",
      "paradise",
      "promised land",
      "Shangri-la",
      "Zion",
      "Sion"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-100853",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "utopian":{
    "antonyms":[
      "Don Quixote",
      "dreamer",
      "fantast",
      "idealist",
      "idealizer",
      "ideologue",
      "idealogue",
      "romantic",
      "romanticist",
      "visionary"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": believing in, advocating, or having the characteristics of utopian socialism":[
        "utopian doctrines",
        "utopian novels"
      ],
      ": impossibly ideal : visionary":[
        "recognised the utopian nature of his hopes",
        "\u2014 C. S. Kilby"
      ],
      ": one who believes in the perfectibility of human society":[],
      ": one who proposes or advocates utopian schemes":[],
      ": proposing or advocating impractically ideal social and political schemes":[
        "utopian idealists"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "a plan to revitalize the city's decaying downtown that proved to be overly ambitious and utopian",
      "Noun",
      "in the 19th century utopians founded a number of short-lived socialist communities",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "That language puts a Zuckerbergian techno- utopian polish on a change Meta is making out of pure competitive necessity. \u2014 Jonathan Vanian, Fortune , 10 June 2022",
      "Fifteen minutes after the last World War Joy show ended on Dec. 6, 2019, in Vancouver, The Chainsmokers sat down with Alpert in that unremarkable green room to discuss their next move, presenting a quasi- utopian vision. \u2014 Katie Bain, Billboard , 6 May 2022",
      "Wilde directs the thriller which, according to The Hollywood Reporter, centers on a 1950s housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community who begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding disturbing secrets. \u2014 Lars Brandle, Billboard , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "The Nakagin capsules suggest a kind of utopian urban life style. \u2014 Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "Over the centuries, rural New York state has played host to utopian groups seeking out new, radically communal ways of life. \u2014 Ben Sandman, The New Republic , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "The ad may be set on a future farm and designed to peddle dairy products, but its pastoral setting and utopian veneer riff on the pitches of many companies seeking to present a change to workplace scenery as an upgrade in quality of life. \u2014 Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic , 15 Apr. 2022",
      "His company, Mandala, markets a utopian /dystopian product known as Own Your Unconscious, a cube that lets a user upload his or her memories, tap into the memories of others who\u2019ve uploaded theirs and watch them all like movies. \u2014 Jennifer Egan, New York Times , 29 Mar. 2022",
      "His visionary work took the form of drawings, paintings, and writings that described a utopian , ecologically-balanced world called Eldorica. \u2014 cleveland , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "But outside the Dorado Beach gates, life is far from a utopian as the decades-long crisis makes essential services, employment, and wealth inaccessible to locals, leaving Puerto Ricans unable to thrive at home. \u2014 Frances Sol\u00e1-santiago, refinery29.com , 3 May 2021",
      "Both technologies promise even more strife between the health foods crowd and Silicon Valley techno- utopians . \u2014 Adrienne Bitar, Time , 28 Nov. 2019",
      "Did Ivrea\u2019s lefty techno- utopians run afoul of Uncle Sam",
      "Early cyberspace utopians thought censorship would soon be obsolete: the internet would treat it as a broken node and route around it. \u2014 The Economist , 14 June 2019",
      "Then there were all those annoying Tolstoyans\u2014vegetarians, fruit-juice drinkers, utopians of every stripe\u2014her husband encouraged to hang around the house. \u2014 Joseph Epstein, WSJ , 11 May 2018",
      "For now, the local government seems receptive toward the crypto utopians ; the governor will speak at their blockchain summit conference, called Puerto Crypto, in March. \u2014 Nellie Bowles, New York Times , 2 Feb. 2018",
      "There have always been plenty of intellectuals and other utopians who ignore this basic truth, of course. \u2014 Elliot Kaufman, National Review , 28 July 2017",
      "Digital nomadism, as an update to both the old hippie trail and get-rich-quick fantasies, unsurprisingly attracts dreamers and utopians , people prone to feelings of betrayal by those who don\u2019t live up to their own ideals. \u2014 Benjamin Wallace, Daily Intelligencer , 12 July 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1551, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
      "circa 1873, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "yu\u0307-\u02c8t\u014d-p\u0113-\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "idealist",
      "idealistic",
      "quixotic",
      "quixotical",
      "romantic",
      "starry",
      "starry-eyed",
      "visionary"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-044427",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "utopian socialism":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": socialism based on a belief that social ownership of the means of production can be achieved by voluntary and peaceful surrender of their holdings by propertied groups":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Over the years, Greeley had advocated vegetarianism, spiritualism and utopian socialism . \u2014 Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com , 26 Feb. 2021",
      "In this climate of relativism and revisionism, where the most outlandish theories are a Google search away, both Marxism and utopian socialism seem credible. \u2014 Matthew Continetti, National Review , 14 Mar. 2020",
      "Free Love was a robust, national, often middle-class phenomenon that emerged from utopian socialism , early feminism and the deep American tradition of resistance to government. \u2014 Michael Bronski, Time , 25 June 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1849, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-002143"
  },
  "utopianize":{
    "type":[
      "transitive verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to render utopian : make a utopia of":[
        "utopianize society"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u0113\u0259\u02ccn\u012bz"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-010146"
  },
  "utopism":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": utopianism sense 2":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "yu\u0307-\u02c8t\u014d-",
      "\u02c8y\u00fc-t\u0259-\u02ccpi-z\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1849, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-124758"
  },
  "utopianist":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": utopian sense 2":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-n\u0259\u0307st"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "utopian entry 1 + -ist":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1836, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-212608"
  },
  "utopianism":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a utopian idea or theory":[],
      ": the body of ideas, views, or aims of a utopian":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "yu\u0307-\u02c8t\u014d-p\u0113-\u0259-\u02ccni-z\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Such developments were unimaginable during the heyday of techno utopianism \u2014when Thomas Friedman and others were proclaiming that the world was flat, rendered indivisible by the internet. \u2014 Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune , 11 June 2022",
      "Composer Anthony Davis wrote the music and weaved in various influences, from the grand mythos of Richard Wagner to the cosmic utopianism of Sun Ra. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 20 May 2022",
      "Fire Island is a stock figure for a certain kind of gay utopianism , but Leifheit is attuned to the variety of cultural meanings that have been inscribed on the place by those who have visited. \u2014 Jack Parlett, The New Yorker , 15 Apr. 2022",
      "Although Chambers\u2019 stories aren\u2019t speculative in the same sense as writers like Doctorow or Kim Stanley Robinson (probably the most prominent name in contemporary utopianism ), that doesn\u2019t detract from their aspirational power. \u2014 Peter Hemminger, Longreads , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "Commercial societies stress practicality, incentives, and the workings of self-interest, for example, thereby putting political tendencies to utopianism firmly in their place. \u2014 Samuel Gregg, National Review , 17 Feb. 2022",
      "Similar trade utopianism was common among European intellectuals in the years before World War I. \u2014 Zachary D. Carter, The New Republic , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "Such extreme utopianism will actually block the Energy Transition and turn the voting public against these vital but limited technologies. \u2014 Jude Clemente, Forbes , 31 Jan. 2022",
      "What Democrats refuse to acknowledge are the trade-offs that accompany their utopianism . \u2014 David Harsanyi, National Review , 23 Oct. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1649, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-233457"
  }
}