About The Word Cynical

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Cynical

Cynical Meaning & Definition
Cynical Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Cynical?

[adj] believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others

Synonyms | Synonyms for Cynical: distrustful | misanthropic | misanthropical

Related Terms | Find terms related to Cynical: 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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