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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an idealistic (but usually impractical) social reformer;
- Example: "a Utopian believes in the ultimate perfectibility of man"


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia;
- Example: "a Utopian novel"
[syn: utopian, Utopian]

2. characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection;
- Example: "the dim utopian future"
- Example: "utopian idealists"
- Example: "recognized the utopian nature of his hopes"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Utopian \U*to"pi*an\, a.
   Of or pertaining to Utopia; resembling Utopia; hence, ideal;
   chimerical; fanciful; founded upon, or involving, imaginary
   perfections; as, Utopian projects; Utopian happiness.
   [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Utopian \U*to"pi*an\, n.
   An inhabitant of Utopia; hence, one who believes in the
   perfectibility of human society; a visionary; an idealist; an
   optimist. --Hooker.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

utopian
    adj 1: of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia; "a Utopian
           novel" [syn: utopian, Utopian]
    2: characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection;
       "the dim utopian future"; "utopian idealists"; "recognized
       the utopian nature of his hopes" [ant: dystopian]
    n 1: an idealistic (but usually impractical) social reformer; "a
         Utopian believes in the ultimate perfectibility of man"


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

80 Moby Thesaurus words for "utopian":
   Arcadian, Don Quixote, Edenic, Fabian, Leibnizian,
   Leibnizian optimist, Pollyanna, Quixote, aspirant, aspirer, bright,
   celestial, cheerful, chiliast, chiliastic, corrective,
   couleur de rose, daydreamer, dreamer, dreamer of dreams,
   emendatory, enthusiast, escapist, extremist, gradualistic,
   heavenly, hopeful, hoper, ideal, idealist, idealized,
   irrepressible optimist, lotus-eater, meliorist, melioristic,
   millenarian, millennial, millennialist, millennialistic,
   millennian, optimist, optimistic, paradisal, perfectibilist,
   perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, philosophical optimist,
   progressionist, progressist, progressive, progressivist, prophet,
   radical, ray of sunshine, reformational, reformative, reformatory,
   reformer, reformist, reformistic, revisional, revisionist,
   revisory, revolutionary, rhapsodist, romancer, romantic,
   romanticist, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, seer, sunny, upbeat,
   utmost, utopianist, utopianizer, utopist, visionary,
   wishful thinker