🇬🇧 Dystopia meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A dystopia is a made‑up world where life is really horrible and unfair for most people. In a dystopia, there might be almost no freedom, very strict and strange rules, dangerous places, and a lot of fear or sadness. Writers and movie makers often create dystopias in the future to show what might happen if people make terrible choices, like ruining the environment, letting robots control everything, or allowing one cruel leader to have all the power.

In the book’s dystopia, people had to ask the government for permission just to take a nap.

I accidentally invented a dessert dystopia when I burned the cookies and melted the ice cream at the same time.

Our classroom felt like a mini dystopia when the teacher said, “No talking, no snacks, no fun—for the next three hours.”

The future dystopia in my head starts the day coffee disappears and everyone has to drink warm cabbage juice instead.

The villain tried to build a dystopia where weekends were canceled and replaced with “Extra Monday.”

She crossed the rusted gate into a dystopia, where screens scolded and food was rationed. Children in this dystopia held dry bowls, eyes bright with fear. Graffiti named the place 'dystopia' and an old man spat 'dystopia'. She pressed a seed into cracked soil; her small smile challenged the dystopia.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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