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Utopian

adjective

Of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia.

Characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection. "Utopian idealists" , "Recognized the utopian nature of his hopes" Antonym: dystopian.

noun

An idealistic (but usually impractical) social reformer.

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"Utopian" Quotes from Famous Books

... laggard steps; they were accustomed to this sort of untimely treatment from the New England climate, and they had no intention of being betrayed thereby into pondering over southern lands or sunny vineclad hillsides where summer always lingered. Boston might not be climatically Utopian, but there was at all events something virile, something manly and admirable about a sort of weather for which no other good word ...

— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble

... practical lifted China to the grand height she has held. It is hinted at in the Bhagavad-Gita:—"whatsoever is practised by the most excellent men"; again, it is the Aryan doctrine of the Guruparampara Chain. The whole idea is so remote from modern practice and theory that it must seem to the west utopian, even absurd; but we have Asoka's reign in India, and Confucius's Ministry in Lu, to prove its basic truth. During that Ministry he had flashed the picture of such a ruler on to the screen of time: and it was ...

— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris

... origin of Masonry in general, and of the organization of the Grand Lodge in particular. They are as follows: First, that it was all due to an imaginary Temple of Solomon described by Lord Bacon in a Utopian romance called the New Atlantis; and this despite the fact that the temple in the Bacon story was not a house at all, but the name of an ideal state. Second, that the object of Freemasonry and the origin of the Third Degree was the ...

— The Builders - A Story and Study of Masonry • Joseph Fort Newton

... to say railway, across the continent, lamented the unprofitable theft of California, and cursed the Alaska purchase as money worse than thrown away. In view of what has been and is, can anyone call it a Utopian dream to picture the Pacific bordered by an advanced civilization with cities more brilliant than any of the ancient East, more opulent than any ...

— Some Cities and San Francisco and Resurgam • Hubert Howe Bancroft

... was brisk with Snelling, and a brass band was playing national airs on a staging erected on the green in front of the post-office. Nightly meetings took place at Grimsey's Hall, and the audiences were good-humored and orderly. Torrini advanced some Utopian theories touching a universal distribution of wealth, which were listened to attentively, but failed to ...

— The Stillwater Tragedy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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