What's the difference between unrealistic and utopian?

Unrealistic


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some of its demands are wildly unrealistic, such as the reintroduction of direct rule and the suspension of devolution.
  • (2) However, this volume of blood is an unrealistic amount to take from the frequently febrile pediatric patient.
  • (3) Following the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance's Hoax of Hollywood conference in Tehran this week, it has been reported that Iran may "sue Hollywood" over what it considers to be unrealistic portrayals of the country in several films.
  • (4) Or is this new low just as unrealistic as the original high?
  • (5) The simplest models make a variety of unrealistic assumptions and an outline is presented of how the assumptions of fingerprint band population frequency equality and mutation rate constancy can be relaxed to produce a more realistic and powerful model.
  • (6) Labour said it would not respond to the threat posed by Ukip by supporting unrealistic targets for net migration or proposing radical changes to the free movement of workers which would probably be rejected by the rest of the EU.
  • (7) Tony Pulis hopes his only transfer business before the close of play at 11pm on Monday is incoming rather than outgoing at West Bromwich Albion but the manager has warned against unrealistic expectations if Saido Berahino remains after the striker marked his return with two goals.
  • (8) Furthermore, a careful selection of the facts to be documented must be established, because a "complete clinical documentation" is unrealistic.
  • (9) It’s not complicated and it’s not an unrealistic wish list.
  • (10) Unfortunately most of these neural nets are unrealistic in important respects.
  • (11) But he concluded: "You've been evasive, repetitive and unrealistic."
  • (12) It is a totally unrealistic, pessimistic vision about what this country can achieve."
  • (13) Our main finding is that most addicts have a strong interest in training and employment services, but their expectations about the impact of such services is often unrealistic.
  • (14) But the scale needed, the expense and the potential unintended consequences are so great that it is widely considered unrealistic.
  • (15) Because this is often unrealistic, the only other way to keep these patients free of disease is by total dental extraction.
  • (16) This implies also the tendency that the average food intake estimated through FFQs can yield unrealistically high values for items consumed frequently.
  • (17) Unrealistic aim The executive does not dispute that the magazine division holds appeal for mass-market publishers such as IPC, Bauer and National Magazines, however, all of which could save significant sums through back office synergies.
  • (18) The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, demanded a European monitoring mission in Ukraine, but conceded it would be “quite unrealistic” for the Russians to allow such a mission into Crimea .
  • (19) Urinary incontinence is a common occurrence in long term care and, given the client population, continence is often an unrealistic expectation.
  • (20) The latter calculation was lower than the ESD in three of the five instances examined, which seems unrealistic.

Utopian


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Utopia; resembling Utopia; hence, ideal; chimerical; fanciful; founded upon, or involving, imaginary perfections; as, Utopian projects; Utopian happiness.
  • (n.) An inhabitant of Utopia; hence, one who believes in the perfectibility of human society; a visionary; an idealist; an optimist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Even if you're being generous, Wood's vision of an alternative can feel like a utopian work in progress.
  • (2) My father, Peter Self, who was, oxymoronically, a “political scientist”, wrote numerous books, which, while often technical in character, were nonetheless informed by his own rather gentle and utopian socialism.
  • (3) In the utopian version of this storyline, by collapsing governments' abilities to promote freedom in some countries but not others, or in the political realm but not the commercial one, openness may force governments to pursue a more principled kind of politics.
  • (4) At the moment, this utopian scenario seems unlikely.
  • (5) Going with what seems a reasonable assumption – that Scotland can be successful either independent or in a federal Britain – we are left with a leap of faith in one direction or the other, based on whose utopian vision of our future is most likely to be untrue.
  • (6) Recently, the Swedish duo Tomorrow Machine showcased a series of utopian packaging that included a container that dissolves with its contents.
  • (7) Hobsbawm, being a sage member of the Communist Party, warned against their utopianism, but I took to them like a fish to water.
  • (8) Even then, analysts who should investigate the link between the business and its persona seem swept away by utopian dreams and look where the company suggests they should be looking (mainly the future.)
  • (9) Such utopian, urban visions help drive the “smart city” rhetoric that has, for the past decade or so, been promulgated most energetically by big technology, engineering and consulting companies.
  • (10) "No, I mean it quite seriously – it's utopian, of course, it will never happen."
  • (11) Ruth Dear Ruth… Will Hutton Photograph: Guardian There is a danger of utopian myth in this, rather like the Labour left and shop steward movement in the 1960s.
  • (12) Just a few months ago the European Parliament and the council were so far apart that it was almost utopian to believe in an agreement.
  • (13) But we're growing out of the initial goggle-eyed utopian phase that new technological leaps tend to induce, and settling down into the reality of the power of the crowd.
  • (14) Though it was a set-up picture, it didn't replicate an "everyday moment"; it created one that was both utopian and unlikely.
  • (15) Utopian maybe, but less ludicrous than suggesting that "hard-working families" can overcome the inequality perpetrated by a powerful elite determined to hang on to their privilege.
  • (16) He admits that the second alternative seems utopian.
  • (17) For mid-century Americans, these gleaming marketplaces provided an almost utopian alternative to the urban commercial district, an artificial downtown with less crime and fewer vermin.
  • (18) With its heady media mix of graphic violence and utopian idylls, Isis has sought recruits and supporters who are further down the path toward ideological radicalisation or more inclined by personal disposition toward violence.
  • (19) An eradication campaign against A. variegatum in Guadeloupe, to avoid the spread of the associated diseases, appears technically difficult but possible, economically profitable, but socially completely utopian.
  • (20) Once again the professionals are nervously circling the utopian future of integrated health and social care But that is never the same as doing it.