cynical

cynical is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish.
2. adjective. Pertaining to the Dog Star; as, the cynic, or Sothic, year; cynic cycle.
3. adjective. Belonging to the sect of philosophers called cynics; having the qualities of a cynic; pertaining to, or resembling, the doctrines of the cynics.
4. adjective. Given to sneering at rectitude and the conduct of life by moral principles; disbelieving in the reality of any human purposes which are not suggested or directed by self-interest or self-indulgence; as, a cynical man who scoffs at pretensions of integrity; characterized by such opinions; as, cynical views of human nature.
5. adjective. believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others

   Synonyms: misanthropic, misanthropical

Synonyms

misanthropic, misanthropical

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cynical:

cyclian

Common word forms

cynically, cynicalness

Words from these letters

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