dystopia

/diss-TOH-pee-uh/noun

an imagined society of great suffering and injustice

The film's dystopia rations even the right to sleep.
Synonyms
anti-utopia, nightmare world
Antonyms
utopia
Root
dys- (bad)
Memory hook
dys (bad) + topia (place): a bad place.

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