utopical

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ju.tɒp.ɪ.kəl/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɒpɪkəl

Adjective

utopical (comparative more utopical, superlative most utopical)

  1. (obsolete) Utopian; ideal.
    • c. 1640, Joseph Hall, quoted in 1837, Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings:
      But let no idle Donatist of Amsterdam dream hence of an Utopical perfection.
    • 1740, Ebenezer Turell, Sermon, preached at Cambridge, September 12, 1739; page 7
      Let Quakers and others idly dream of such utopical Perfection, and not us.

References
  • utopical in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  1. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, volume 8

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