Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A utopian; an optimist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Utopian.
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- noun A
utopian .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I don't know of any "utopist" mode of thinking among Obama supporters.
Oregon Exit Polls: Obama Handily Beat Hillary Among Whites, No-College, Less-Than-$50,000 Voters 2009
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The eighteenth century also produced a rather different kind of utopist in the person of Robert
UTOPIA ROGER L. EMERSON 1968
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The confronting artist will guards us from naivity while the utopist protects us from cynisism.
Moebius and Miyazaki James Gurney 2009
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The real problem is the utopist mode of thinking so prevalent among Obama supporters, which is so completely divorced from political realities.
Oregon Exit Polls: Obama Handily Beat Hillary Among Whites, No-College, Less-Than-$50,000 Voters 2009
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The representatives of different schools of thought were organizing and involving themselves in discussions: nationalists (the followers of the utopist Edward Bellamy), anarchists, populists (the supporters of the Agrarian Party), and others.
THE UNIVERSITY 2003
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But so, also, has he who stands outside of the actual civic field, whether as philistine or aesthete, utopist or cynic, party politician or
Civics: as Applied Sociology Patrick Geddes 1893
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One who has said as many excellent and practical things as occur in these two beautiful and paradoxical improvisations of yours cannot be a pure and unwavering utopist.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. 1890
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One who has said as many excellent and practical things as occur in these two beautiful and paradoxical improvisations of yours cannot be a pure and unwavering utopist.
What is Property? 1837
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On paper the ideals of communism are just wonderful and almost utopist in nature.
IntelliBriefs 2009
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I know already that I will get many comments highlighting the lack of details, the utopist ideas, and the impossibility of implementing it altogether.
AGORAVOX - The Citizen Media Olivier Pilot 2009
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