2. as bad as can be; characterized by human misery; - Example: "AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages"- Susan Sontag
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dystopian
adj 1: of or pertaining to or resembling a dystopia
2: as bad as can be; characterized by human misery; "AIDS is one
of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages"- Susan
Sontag [ant: utopian]