Meaning of the word dystopia in English

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dystopia

US /dɪˈstoʊ.pi.ə/
UK /dɪˈstoʊ.pi.ə/

Noun

1.

a very bad or unfair society in which there is a lot of suffering, especially an imaginary society in the future, after something terrible has happened; a description of such a society:

Example:
The film is set in 2700 on an uninhabitable Earth, a dystopia covered in towers of garbage.
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