utopic

See also: utòpic

English

Etymology

utopia +‎ -ic

Adjective

utopic (comparative more utopic, superlative most utopic)

1. Seeming to originate in utopia; utopian
   • 1850, Antonio Carlo N. Gallenga (L. Mariotti), Scenes from Italian life, pg. 133:

     They dismissed the work as utopic, unpractical.

   • 1919, Robert Briffault, The Making of Humanity, G. Allen & Unwin ltd., pg. 247:

     [...] and those issues and the potentialities out of which they arise are such as would to any previous age, could it have so much as conceived them, have seemed the distant problems of utopic speculation.

   • 1986 August 16, Dan Kaufman, “Confused at 18: A Friend's Advice”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 5, page 11:

     It would be so much easier if homosexuality were accepted — period. "Coming out," that life-long process of letting people know that you are a certain way, and that you're upset by their homophobic actions, would not have to occur. Of course I'm speaking in utopic terms; this won't happen for a long time, if ever.

   • 2000, Tom Brass, Peasants, Populism, and Postmodernism: The Return of the Agrarian Myth, Routledge, →ISBN, page 243:

     By contrast, in the utopic vision of Hilton and Capra it is space which is traversed and not time; both utopic and dystopic exist in the same moment but occupy a different terrain.

Translations

utopian — see utopian

Anagrams

• Pictou

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French utopique. By surface analysis, utopie +‎ -ic.

Adjective

utopic m or n (feminine singular utopică, masculine plural utopici, feminine and neuter plural utopice)

1. utopian

   Antonym: distopic

Declension

Declension of utopic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	utopic		utopică	utopici	utopice
	definite	utopicul		utopica	utopicii	utopicele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	utopic		utopice	utopici	utopice
	definite	utopicului		utopicei	utopicilor	utopicelor