English word senses marked with topical category "Utopian and dystopian fiction"

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Parent categories: Speculative fiction, Fiction, Genres, Artistic works, Entertainment, Art, Culture, Society
Subcategories: The Handmaid's Tale, The Hunger Games, The Matrix, The Walking Dead, Warhammer

Total 62 word senses

• AoS (Proper name) Initialism of Age of Sigmar (“British tabletop fantasy game set after the events of Warhammer Fantasy Battle”).
• Bethyl (Proper name) The ship of characters Beth Greene and Daryl Dixon from the television series The Walking Dead.
• Caryl (Proper name) The ship of characters Carol Peletier and Daryl Dixon from the television series The Walking Dead.
• Chaos (Proper name) In the Warhammer franchise, a demonic antagonist that sends demons, monsters, warriors, and beasts to wage war on the games' setting.
• Eldar (Noun) An elflike race of aliens from Warhammer 40,000, now known as Aeldari.
• Everlark (Proper name) The ship of characters Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark from The Hunger Games series.
• Everthorne (Proper name) The ship of characters Katniss Everdeen and Gale Hawthorne from The Hunger Games series.
• GeeDubs (Proper name) Games Workshop, a British board games company that created the Warhammer board game franchise.
• Generation K (Proper name) A demographic cohort identified in 2015, consisting of 13- to 20-year-olds who are relatively anxious, intent on being unique, and concerned about inequality.
• Gilead (Proper name) An illiberal and oppressive place, especially on matters related to women's rights, reproduction, or sex (from the theocratic dystopia in Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale).
• Gileadean (Adjective) Of, related to, or characteristic of the fictional theocratic dystopian nation of Gilead in Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel The Handmaid's Tale.
• Gileadean (Noun) An inhabitant of the fictional theocratic dystopian nation of Gilead in Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel The Handmaid's Tale.
• God Emperor (Proper name) Donald Trump, American politician and 45th president of the United States.
• Hayffie (Proper name) The ship of characters Haymitch Abernathy and Effie Trinket from The Hunger Games series.
• Hunger Games (Noun) A vicious contest, especially one that is winner-take-all.
• I volunteer as tribute (Interjection) Used to indicate that one is enthusiastic or willing to do something; implies (often ironically) that the thing is unpleasant or undesirable.
• Matrix defense (Proper name) A legal defense in which the defendant claims to have committed a crime in the belief that he/she was not in the real world, but in a simulated reality.
• Matrixism (Proper name) A minor modern religion based on the science-fiction franchise The Matrix.
• Orwellesque (Adjective) Synonym of Orwellian
• Orwellian (Adjective) Resembling the totalitarian political methods decried in the works of writer George Orwell, particularly in the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four; characterized by use of misleading terminology, propaganda, censorship, surveillance and repression.
• Peeniss (Proper name) The ship of characters Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games series.
• Richonne (Proper name) The ship of characters Rick Grimes and Michonne from the television series The Walking Dead.
• Warhammer (Proper name) Warhammer, a British tabletop military game set in a dystopian mediaeval fantasy world.
• beastman (Noun) An intelligent man-sized beast with varying characteristics.
• blue pill (Noun) Antonym of red pill; rejecting the red pill philosophy.
• conversion (Noun) A free kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
• conversion (Noun) An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into the end zone after scoring a touchdown.
• conversion (Noun) The act of turning round; revolution; rotation.
• conversion (Noun) Changing a miniature figure into another character, usually by mixing different parts, or molding the model's parts, or doing both.
• cyberpunk (Noun) A subgenre of science fiction which focuses on computer or information technology and virtual reality juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.
• dakka (Noun) Firepower.
• dystopia (Noun) A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living or severe censorship, oppression, etc.
• dystopian (Adjective) Of or pertaining to a dystopia.
• greenskin (Noun) One of several distinct green-skinned creatures often grouped together, such as orcs, goblins and (sometimes) trolls.
• grimdark (Noun) The literary genre of speculative fiction that is amoral, dystopian, or violent.
• handmaiden (Noun) Alternative form of handmaid.
• humie (Noun) A human (especially as opposed to a different sapient species).
• kitbash (Verb) To create a new scale model using pieces from existing commercial kits.
• lizardman (Noun) An intelligent man-sized lizard who walks on hind legs and speaks and dresses similar to humans.
• may the odds be ever in your favor (Phrase) Used to wish someone luck in an adverse or uncertain situation.
• miniature (Noun) A chess game which is concluded with very few moves.
• ork (Noun) A species of aggressive, fungal humanoid alien, corresponding to the orcs in other fantasy works.
• plastic crack (Noun) Expensive plastic scale models that are very popular, such as those from the Warhammer franchise.
• psyker (Noun) a person who uses psychic powers.
• red pill (Noun) Something that enables or compels a person to overcome illusion and perceive harsher reality.
• red pill (Noun) The subculture of men who share a belief in the gynocentrism of modern society; manosphere.
• red pill (Noun) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, pill.
• red pill (Verb) To enable a person to overcome illusion and perceive harsher reality.
• red pill (Verb) To cause someone to believe in gynocentrism in modern society.
• red piller (Noun) One who believes that society is gynocentric.
• space marine (Noun) a soldier who fights in outer space or extraterrestrial worlds.
• take the red pill (Verb) To understand the world in its previously unknown reality.
• uchronia (Noun) An idealized or fictional conception of a particular period of time, especially in the past.
• utopia (Noun) A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony.
• utopian (Adjective) Ideal but often impractical; visionary.
• walker (Noun) The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
• walker (Noun) A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
• walker (Noun) A batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.
• walker (Noun) A prostitute, streetwalker.
• walker (Noun) Alternative form of waulker
• walking dead (Adjective) Corresponding to an unwinnable game state, where the player can still act in the game world but victory is impossible.
• 40k (Proper name) Warhammer 40,000, a British tabletop military game set in a dystopian future Galaxy torn by war.

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