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
Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 25 Dec. 2025
Here Mitchell shows us a different type of beauty, disconnected from the ethereal realms of haute couture and utopian summer fantasies, pointing quietly to the fragility of life itself.
—Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2025
Sonja Fritzsche, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
Defending international shipping isn’t some kind of plot hatched by globalist utopians in the 1990s.
—The Editors, National Review, 26 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
Some might be inclined to label Lee as an early cult leader, with her extreme views on sexuality, somatic-style worshipping rituals rooted in dance and song as well as her desire to build a self-sufficient, utopian community outside of mainstream society.
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If not, these elements of Musk’s project are likely to remain more theoretical, just as the dreams of last century’s techno-utopians did.
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While Paris is often framed as endlessly romantic, Wells says the day-to-day realities can be isolating.—
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Safe to say a breakup album is off the table, as the artist is back in her romantic era.—
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Across cultures and centuries, constellations have been used to explain myths, guide travelers, and inspire dreamers.—
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The Audacity will star Billy Magnussen and Zach Galifianakis, and revolve around everyone in the orbit of tech’s Disneyland, from the makers and dreamers to the billionaires and bosses.—
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Nothing’s as sobering to an impractical but fun idea as having to foot the bill.—
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By increasing effective gravity, researchers can accelerate years or even decades of structural and geological stress into just a few hours, enabling experiments that would be impractical in the real world.—
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But, as idealistic and well-intentioned as Remmick might present himself, the vampire will nevertheless take with force what he's not given.—
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Still, the idealistic Isaacson believes the book and that aspirational sentence have plenty to say.—
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The lack of competition means the greatest fear many lawmakers have is not the prospect of losing to the other party in a general election but rather being snuffed out in a primary by a more ideological and extreme challenger.—
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The Justice Department's appeal thus functions as both legal brief and ideological statement.—
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Sagittarius is an idealist sign that can totally relate to this tale of enduring relationships.—
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The contact with and dependence on such support arguably also bolstered art’s worldliness and acted as an antidote to the petit bourgeois affinity for idealist mystification.—
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“Utopian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/utopian. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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