Utopian
21UTOPIAN LITERATURE — Although utopian themes are present in premodern Japanese literature, a distinctive kind of UTOPIAN LITERATURE; emerged in Japan in the wake of the Meiji Restoration. As early as 1868, the Dutch utopian text Anno 2065: een Blik in de Toekomst …
22Utopian (automobile) — The Utopian was a unique, one of a kind, English automobile created in 1914. Built by the Utopian Motor Works of Leicester, the car was powered by a two cylinder water cooled engine mounted under its seat. For steering, there was a side tiller.… …
23utopian socialism — (sometimes cap.) an economic system based on the premise that if capital voluntarily surrendered its ownership of the means of production to the state or the workers, unemployment and poverty would be abolished. Cf. socialism. [1920 25] * * *… …
24utopian socialism — noun Date: circa 1923 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 • utopian socialist noun …
25utopian socialist — noun see utopian socialism …
26Utopian — /yooh toh pee euhn/, adj. 1. of, pertaining to, or resembling Utopia. 2. (usually l.c.) founded upon or involving idealized perfection. 3. (usually l.c.) given to impractical or unrealistic schemes of such perfection. n. 4. an inhabitant of… …
27utopian — 1. adjective a) Ideal but often impractical; visionary. b) of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia Syn: unrealistic Ant: dystopian, reali …
28utopian — utopia …
29utopian — Synonyms and related words: Arcadian, Don Quixote, Edenic, Fabian, Leibnizian, Leibnizian optimist, Pollyanna, Quixote, aspirant, aspirer, bright, celestial, cheerful, chiliast, chiliastic, corrective, couleur de rose, daydreamer, dreamer,… …
30Utopian — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. ideal[istic], optimistic, visionary, romantic; rosy; perfect; unrealistic, unworldly; quixotic, Arcadian. n. utopianist; dreamer, idealist, optimist, visionary, romantic; Quixote. See imagination.… …
