as in romantic
having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality
a plan to revitalize the city's decaying downtown that proved to be overly ambitious and utopian
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as in dreamer
one whose conduct is guided more by the image of perfection than by the real world
in the 19th century utopians founded a number of short-lived socialist communities
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Recent Examples of utopian
Rich Juzwiak, Time, 24 June 2025
Here was a community built on collectivist and utopian principles that had decided 88 years after its founding to disband.
—Joseph Torigian, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025
Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2023
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.
—Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 3 May 2021
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Adjective
Advertisement While the setting of Brokeback Mountain, where the pair first works together herding sheep, provides secluded idyll along the (theoretically) utopian lines of Fire Island, Jack and Ennis are largely divorced from gay culture.
—Rich Juzwiak, Time, 24 June 2025
Here was a community built on collectivist and utopian principles that had decided 88 years after its founding to disband.
—Joseph Torigian, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025
Noun
In attempting to build a new settlement out of whole cloth, these tech moguls are following a tradition started nearly a century ago by other American industrialists, who built company towns around their mills, and utopians who built remote communities in line with their social beliefs.
—Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2023
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.
—Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 3 May 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for utopian
Adjective
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This week American Ballet Theater is coming to Orange Country’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts July 24-27 to perform the classic romantic ballet Giselle.—
Tom Teicholz,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025
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The fresh take on Austen’s first novel — which follows the differing romantic journeys of sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood after their father’s death forces them to leave their family’s estate — has officially started filming in the United Kingdom.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
21 July 2025
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Helping to deconstruct stereotypes and opening doors for the next generation of Black storytellers, actors, and dreamers.—
Doug Melville,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025
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The dreamer remains a great story, a football survivor.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
16 July 2025
Adjective
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Agent deployment is impractical, while VDI introduces performance penalties and complexity.—
Etay Maor,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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Adelman, who will preside over her trial, suggested in the June 18 hearing that the current schedule was impractical.—
Daniel Bice,
jsonline.com,
15 July 2025
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This is not an idealistic concept; there are programs in the U.S. that link food systems to human health.—
Alana Sandel,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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Mark your calendars because this summer is about to get lit — especially as responsible Saturn, idealistic Neptune, and transformational Pluto alchemize with Uranus, bringing extreme makeovers to many aspects of our lives and to the world at large.—
Lisa Stardust,
refinery29.com,
4 July 2025
Adjective
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This, in turn, becomes logically reliant on the idealist paradigm of Consciousness as the fundamental lowest common denominator of reality.—
Carlo Tortora Brayda,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Labour leader Starmer, though, has taken a realist rather than an idealist approach to the president, putting Britain's foreign policy interests above the strong opposition to Trump in the rank and file of his own party.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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When these systems prioritize power, resource control, or ideological purity over human well-being, suffering becomes an inevitable byproduct.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
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Kagan offered potential insight into why the court has split along ideological lines on some of those cases.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
25 July 2025
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Since then, Anna has embarked on a quixotic mission to pursue the objects.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
24 July 2025
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While nothing gets a marketer’s heart racing like the quixotic desire to overcome scarcity, the vanishing dollar demos should discourage this kind of self-defeating strategy.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
11 July 2025
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“Utopian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/utopian. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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