utopical
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ju.tɒp.ɪ.kəl/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɒpɪkəl
Adjective
utopical (comparative more utopical, superlative most utopical)
- (obsolete) Utopian; ideal.
- c. 1640, Joseph Hall, quoted in 1837, Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings:
- But let no idle Donatist of Amsterdam dream hence of an Utopical perfection.
- 1740, Ebenezer Turell, Sermon, preached at Cambridge, September 12, 1739; page 7
- Let Quakers and others idly dream of such utopical Perfection, and not us.
- c. 1640, Joseph Hall, quoted in 1837, Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings:
References
- “utopical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, volume 8
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