brave new world noun2 •A better, often utopian (future) world.O wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there heere? / How beauteous mankinde is? O braue new world / That has such people in't. — 1610 •A terrible, often oppressive or dystopian world.In this brave new world, the IMF and other Western financial institutions dictated radical free trade "shock treatment" to both developing nations and the former USSR ... — 2005 formsbrave new worlds