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misanthropic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /-zən-/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˌmɪsənˈθɹɒpɪk/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˌmɪsənˈθɹɑpɪk/ (General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree English misanthrope Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English misanthropic From misanthrope + -ic.

Meanings

1. Having a negative view of mankind. This may express itself as, e.g., distrust, dislike, hate, or contempt.
   • The torturers of any form of life torture the life. In this they are not only abominators of form, but haters of nature; and the violationist school is misozoic, life-hating; in continuation of that which it also is, misanthropic, or an enemy of mankind. 1876, James John Garth Wilkinson, On Human Science: Good and Evil, and on Divine Revelation:
   • [C]hildren, ſervants, are falſe, fraudful, foul, if the miſanthropic man, who is father and maſter, lets fall among them, in his outbreaks of paſſion, his opinion that they are ſo. 1860, Isaac Taylor, “Essay I. Ultimate Civilization.”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], →OCLC, part I, section IV, page 37:

Forms

Antonyms

philanthropic

Coordinates

antihuman

Deriveds

misanthropically · misanthropical · unmisanthropic

Relateds

misandry · Timonian · misanthropy · misanthropist · altruism · misogyny · philogyny · philandry · misanthropise · misanthrope

Translations (26)

ca misantròpic (disliking or hating mankind) · it misantropico (disliking or hating mankind) · es misantrópico (disliking or hating mankind) · fr misanthropique (disliking or hating mankind) · grc μισάνθρωπος (disliking or hating mankind) · sh mizantropski (disliking or hating mankind) · uk людиноненави́дницький (disliking or hating mankind) · no misantropisk (disliking or hating mankind) · eo hommalama (disliking or hating mankind) · da misantropisk (disliking or hating mankind) · hu mizantrópikus (disliking or hating mankind) · uk людиноненави́сницький (disliking or hating mankind) · pt misantrópico (disliking or hating mankind) · ga míchaidreamhach (disliking or hating mankind) · mk мизантро́пски (disliking or hating mankind) · fi misantrooppinen (disliking or hating mankind) · ru человеконенави́стнический (disliking or hating mankind) · uk мізантропський (disliking or hating mankind) · sv misantropisk (disliking or hating mankind) · hy մարդատյաց (disliking or hating mankind) · hu embergyűlölő (disliking or hating mankind) · ru мизантропи́ческий (disliking or hating mankind) · da menneskefjendsk (disliking or hating mankind) · pl mizantropijny (disliking or hating mankind) · hu mizantróp (disliking or hating mankind) · pt misantropo (disliking or hating mankind)