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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024cyn•ic /ˈsɪnɪk/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a person who believes that only selfishness is the cause of all human actions:a cynic who never understood anyone's charity toward another.
- a person who shows or expresses a bitterly negative attitude, as by making hateful remarks about others.
cyn•i•cal, adj. cyn•i•cism /ˈsɪnɪˌsɪzəm/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cyn•ic (sin′ik),USA pronunciation n. - a person who believes that only selfishness motivates human actions and who disbelieves in or minimizes selfless acts or disinterested points of view.
- Philosophy(cap.) one of a sect of Greek philosophers, 4th century b.c., who advocated the doctrines that virtue is the only good, that the essence of virtue is self-control, and that surrender to any external influence is beneath human dignity.
- a person who shows or expresses a bitterly or sneeringly cynical attitude.
adj. - cynical.
- Philosophy(cap.) Also, Cynical. of or pertaining to the Cynics or their doctrines.
- Medicineresembling the actions of a snarling dog.
- Greek Kynikós Cynic, literally, doglike, currish, equivalent. to kyn- (stem of kýōn) dog + -ikos - ic
- Latin Cynicus
- 1540–50
- 1, 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged skeptic, pessimist, misanthrope.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: cynic /ˈsɪnɪk/ n - a person who believes the worst about people or the outcome of events
adj - a less common word for cynical
Etymology: 16th Century: via Latin from Greek Kunikos, from kuōn dog Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Cynic /ˈsɪnɪk/ n - a member of a sect founded by Antisthenes that scorned worldly things and held that self-control was the key to the only good
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