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Definition of Misanthropic
1. Adjective. Believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others.
Similar to: Distrustful
Derivative terms: Cynic, Misanthropy, Misanthrope, Misanthropy
2. Adjective. Hating mankind in general.
Similar to: Ill-natured
Derivative terms: Misanthropy, Misanthrope, Misanthropy
Definition of Misanthropic
1. a. Hating or disliking mankind.
Definition of Misanthropic
1. Adjective. Hating or disliking mankind. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misanthropic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misanthropic
Literary usage of Misanthropic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fragments from German prose writers by Sarah Austin (1841)
"... warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter. ..."
2. Rejected Addresses: Or, The New Theatrum Poetarum by James Smith, Horace Smith (1841)
"... succeeded better in copying the moody and misanthropic sentiments-of Childe
Harold, than the nervous and impetuous diction in which his noble biographer ..."
3. Posthumous Memoirs of Karoline Bauer: From the German by Karoline Bauer (1884)
"... and rendered all the more misanthropic and bitter through this blow of fate.
St. Petersburg became hateful to him. Raupach went to Italy, and there, ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"misanthropic expresses a hatred of mankind as a race. ... Byron's Childe Harold
is '* a jaded and misanthropic voluptuary": such a person ..."
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