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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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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And a source tells EW that the actor, who also starred on Evil, will play the new object of Andy's romantic affection.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
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
Adjective
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The idealistic and naively optimistic Superman walks right into the trap.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
11 July 2025
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Humanitarian workers—many idealistic and committed—fear that sounding the alarm will end operations altogether.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 July 2025
Adjective
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Wish-casting a better result for a confrontation in a different place, Vindman suppresses how much and how often America antagonized Russia through its idealist actions, rather than realist inaction.—
Samuel Moyn,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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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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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 3 Aug. 2025.
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