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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who hates others |
| Synonyms: | cynic, doubter, egoist, egotist, hater, isolate, loner, misanthropist, recluse, skeptic |
| Notes: | a misandrist hates persons of the male sex, a misogynist hates persons of the female sex, and a misanthrope is a hater of mankind |
| Antonyms: | humanitarian, philanthropist |
| Main Entry: | hermit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who chose to live alone |
| Synonyms: | anchorite, ascetic, eremite, misanthrope, outside of human society anchoret, pillarist, recluse, skeptic, solitaire, solitarian, solitary, stylite |
| Main Entry: | misogynist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | woman-hater |
| Synonyms: | anti-feminist, male chauvinist, misanthrope, sexist |
| Notes: | a misandrist hates persons of the male sex, a misogynist hates persons of the female sex, and a misanthrope is a hater of mankind |
| Main Entry: | naysayer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pessimist |
| Synonyms: | complainer, cynic, defeatist, downer, gloomy, killjoy, misanthrope, party pooper, prophet of doom, sourpuss, wet blanket |
| Main Entry: | pessimist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who expects bad outcome |
| Synonyms: | complainer, crepehanger, cynic, defeatist, depreciator, downer, gloomy, killjoy, misanthrope, party pooper, prophet of doom, sourpuss, wet blanket, worrier, worrywart |
| Antonyms: | optimist |
| Main Entry: | Scrooge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skinflint |
| Synonyms: | cheapskate, meanie, misanthrope, misanthropist, miser, moneygrubber, niggard, penny-pincher, tightwad |
| Main Entry: | skeptic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is leery, unbelieving |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, apostate, atheist, cynic, disbeliever, dissenter, doubter, doubting Thomas, freethinker, heathen, heretic, infidel, materialist, misanthrope, misbeliever, nihilist, pagan, pessimist, profaner, questioner, rationalist, scoffer, unbeliever |
| Notes: | cynics doubt because they question motives (Cynic was first a school of philosophy expressing contempt for wealth and pleasure; the word cynic comes from Greek cyniko 'doglike'); skeptics doubt reports of what they hear or read |
| Antonyms: | believer, devotee, disciple |
| Main Entry: | crank |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | an ill-natured person |
| Synonyms: | complainer, curmudgeon, grouch, misanthrope |
| Main Entry: | male chauvinist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | man believing in male superiority |
| Synonyms: | MCP, anti-feminist, bigot, chauvinist, female chauvinist, jingoist, male chauvinist pig, manist, masculist, misanthrope, racist, sexist, supremacist |
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