Meaning of CYNICAL
Pronunciation: | | 'sinikul
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| Definition: | | [adj] believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others |
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| Synonyms: | | distrustful, misanthropic, misanthropical |
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| Related Terms: | | antisocial, captious, carping, Cassandra-like, Cassandran, Cassandrian, caustic, caviling, critical, defeatist, dismal, downbeat, dry, faultfinding, gloomy, hairsplitting, hypercritical, ironic, man-hating, misogynous, nagging, negative, negativistic, niggling, nihilistic, overcritical, pessimist, pessimistic, pettifogging, quibbling, Rabelaisian, sarcastic, sardonic, satiric, sexist, Timonistic, trichoschistic, ultracritical, uncheerful, unsociable, woman-hating |
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