dystopic

English

Etymology

dystopia +‎ -ic

Adjective

dystopic (comparative more dystopic, superlative most dystopic)

  1. (pathology) Characterised by dystopia
  2. dystopian
    • 2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240:
      The Red Holocaust is best interpreted in this light as the bitter fruit of an[sic] utopian gambit that was socially misengineered into a dystopic nightmare by despots in humanitarian disguise.
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