utopian
yoo-TOH-pee-unadjMeaning aiming for a perfect society; too ideal to be realistic
Memory hook YOU-TOPIA: a perfect place that is NO place. On Pip’s map of the perfect island, the rivers are lemonade and nobody ever argues. Lovely, but it’s no real place: a utopian dream.
In their utopian town, no door had a lock and no neighbor ever argued.
In context The club’s utopian plan, a school with no rules, no homework and no arguments, sounded wonderful, but no one could explain how it would actually work.
Similar idealistic, visionary, perfect, unrealistic
Opposite dystopian, realistic, practical
From Utopia, a perfect imaginary island in a book of 1516; the name means “no place” in Greek (ou, not + topos, place).