Utopian
See also: utopian
English
Etymology
Adjective
Utopian (comparative more Utopian, superlative most Utopian)
- Alternative letter-case form of utopian.
- 1932 July 18, William H[enry] Dunphy, quotee, “Anti-Christian War Is Traced to Russia […]”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 July 1932:
- [I]f it sounds Utopian to say that Christianity can save the world—remember, it is Utopia or hell!
Noun
Utopian (plural Utopians)
- Alternative letter-case form of utopian.
- 1850 September, Charles Kingsley, “Tennyson”, in Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other Papers, author’s edition, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1859, →OCLC, page 187:
- At the end of the first cantos, fresh from the description of the female college, with its professoresses, and hostleresses, and other Utopian monsters, […]
- (fiction) A person from Utopia, a fictional island possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system from Thomas More’s 1516 book of the same name.
- 1998, Gerard B. Wegemer, Thomas More on Statesmanship[2]:
- As unusual as these official games may appear, they constitute an integral part in teaching the machiavellian tactics which the Utopians proudly use in their foreign wars.
Proper noun
Utopian (uncountable)
- A constructed language created by Thomas More and Peter Giles for the fictional island Utopia, from Thomas More’s 1516 book of the same name.