Today’s Words That Work: Dystopia
A dystopia (dis-TOH-pee-uh) — from the Greek — is the opposite of a utopia. It is a society characterized by human misery — squalor, oppression, and deprivation.
Example (as used by David Kamp in a New York Times review of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson): "Larsson’s is a dark, nearly humorless world, where everyone works fervidly into the night and swills tons of coffee…. But this world is not dystopian. The good guys… always prevail in the end."
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