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
Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 11 May 2025
The Paris Climate Accord is a kind of utopian desire.
—A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 7 May 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
Hanson sees the rise of dance pop in the US as reflective of utopian desires in the face of economic recession.
—Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 11 May 2025
The Paris Climate Accord is a kind of utopian desire.
—A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 7 May 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 lusty trine activates your exotic ninth house and flirtatious fifth house, bringing romantic storylines, creative breakthroughs and a little adventure that spices things up in more ways than one.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
22 May 2025
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Saturday, June 14 Remembering Love Jones Presented by Walmart Synopsis: Join us for a rare and intimate conversation with Nia Long and Larenz Tate celebrating the legacy of Love Jones (1997), the iconic romantic drama written and directed by Theodore Witcher.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
22 May 2025
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With a main home and a guest cottage offering up a total of four bedrooms and four baths in nearly 3,150 square feet, the secluded residence has plenty of room for any like-minded dreamer to eat, pray, love, and more while enjoying some particularly stunning ocean and mountain views.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
22 May 2025
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The budget dreamers in one-party California are the latest to be shocked — shocked!—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
22 May 2025
Adjective
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Imagine someone championing a project others deem impractical but later becoming the pioneer of a game-changing approach.—
Glenn Llopis,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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Additionally, much of the country's housing stock is older, making retrofitting AC units both costly and impractical.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 May 2025
Adjective
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Love, Coffee, and Revolution By Stefanie Leder Blackstone: 282 pages, $29 (June 10) Dee Blum is an idealistic student who drops out of college to lead eco-tours in Costa Rica, much to her family’s disapproval.—
Lorraine Berry,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2025
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Third are people who are idealistic, but not ambitious.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes.com,
26 May 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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This infrastructure and ideological influence spread even as the community obsessed over pictures of monkeys on a blockchain.—
Boaz Sobrado,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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Wars are caused by ideological need for control, power and authority.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
24 May 2025
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There will be protests and lawsuits, but several brands ― from the old and historic to new and quixotic ― need to go, for the ultimate good of the automaker’s shareholders, workers and dealers.—
Mark Phelan,
USA Today,
20 May 2025
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The second believed the United States could attain comprehensive security through military-technological means and saw diplomacy as a quixotic or pusillanimous enterprise that dishonored and weakened the country.—
A. Wess Mitchell,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Utopian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/utopian. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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