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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Utopian \U*to"pi*an\, noun An inhabitant of Utopia; hence, one who believes in the perfectibility of human society; a visionary; an idealist; an optimist. --Hooker.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Utopian \U*to"pi*an\, adjective Of or pertaining to Utopia; resembling Utopia; hence, ideal; chimerical; fanciful; founded upon, or involving, imaginary perfections; as, Utopian projects; Utopian happiness.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
utopian
adjective
1: of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia; "a Utopian novel"
2: characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection; "the dim utopian future"; "utopian idealists"; "recognized the utopian nature of his hopes" [ant: {dystopian}]
noun: an idealistic (but usually impractical) social reformer; "a Utopian believes in the ultimate perfectibility of man"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "utopian": Arcadian, Don Quixote, Edenic, Fabian, Leibnizian, Leibnizian optimist, Pollyanna, Quixote, aspirant, aspirer, bright, celestial, cheerful, chiliast, chiliastic, corrective, couleur de rose, daydreamer, dreamer, dreamer of dreams, emendatory, enthusiast, escapist, extremist, gradualistic, heavenly, hopeful, hoper, ideal, idealist, idealized, irrepressible optimist, lotus-eater, meliorist, melioristic, millenarian, millennial, millennialist, millennialistic, millennian, optimist, optimistic, paradisal, perfectibilist, perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, philosophical optimist, progressionist, progressist, progressive, progressivist, prophet, radical, ray of sunshine, reformational, reformative, reformatory, reformer, reformist, reformistic, revisional, revisionist, revisory, revolutionary, rhapsodist, romancer, romantic, romanticist, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, seer, sunny, upbeat, utmost, utopianist, utopianizer, utopist, visionary, wishful thinker
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