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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsociable, cynical |
| Synonyms: | antisocial, egoistic, egotistical, eremitic, hating, inhumane, malevolent, misanthropical, reclusive, reserved, sarcastic, selfish, solitary, standoffish, unfriendly |
| Antonyms: | humanitarian, philanthropic, sociable |
| Main Entry: | crabby/crabbed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in a bad mood |
| Synonyms: | acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad-tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, churlish, cranky*, cross, crotchety, crusty, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy, harsh, huffy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, misanthropic, morose, nasty-tempered, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, saturnine, snappish, snappy, sour, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, tart, testy, tough, trying, unsociable |
| Antonyms: | happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cynical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nonbelieving; doubtful |
| Synonyms: | contemptuous, derisive, ironic, misanthropic, misanthropical, mocking, pessimistic, sarcastic, sardonic, scoffing, scornful, skeptical, sneering, suspicious, unbelieving, wry |
| Antonyms: | believing, hopeful, optimistic, trusting, undoubting |
| Main Entry: | pessimistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expecting bad outcome |
| Synonyms: | bleak, cynical, dark, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, discouraged, distrustful, downhearted, fatalistic, foreboding, gloomy, glum, hopeless, melancholy, misanthropic, morbid, morose, resigned, sad, sullen, troubled, worried |
| Antonyms: | confident, optimistic, trusting |
| Main Entry: | recluse/reclusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hermitlike, unsociable |
| Synonyms: | antisocial, ascetic, cloistered, eremetic, hermetic, isolated, misanthropic, monastic, reserved, retiring, secluded, secluse, seclusive, sequestered, solitary, standoffish, withdrawn |
| Antonyms: | extroverted, friendly, sociable |
| Main Entry: | reserved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | silent, unsociable; constrained |
| Synonyms: | aloof, backward, bashful, cautious, ceremonious, close, close-mouthed, cold*, collected, composed, conventional, cool, demure, diffident, distant, eremitic, formal, frigid, gentle, icy*, mild, misanthropic, modest, noncommittal, offish, peaceful, placid, prim, quiet, reclusive, restrained, reticent, retiring, secretive, sedate, self-contained, serene, shy, soft-spoken, solitary, standoffish, taciturn, unapproachable, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, undemonstrative, unresponsive, withdrawn |
| Antonyms: | extroverted, friendly, outgoing, sociable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | solitary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alone, single; unsociable |
| Synonyms: | aloof, antisocial, cloistered, companionless, deserted, desolate, distant, eremetic, forsaken, friendless, hermitical, hidden, individual, introverted, isolated, lone, lonely, lonesome, lorn, misanthropic, offish, only, out-of-the-way, particular, reclusive, remote, reserved, retired, secluded, separate, sequestered, singular, sole, solo, stag, standoffish, unaccompanied, unapproachable, unattended, uncompanionable, unfrequented, unique, unsocial, withdrawn |
| Antonyms: | accompanied, combined, sociable, together |
| Main Entry: | standoffish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cold, distant |
| Synonyms: | aloof, antisocial, cool, eremitic, haughty, indifferent, misanthropic, reclusive, remote, reserved, solitary, unapproachable, uncompanionable, unsociable, withdrawn |
| Antonyms: | friendly, sociable, warm |
| Main Entry: | unfriendly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, hostile |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, against, alien, aloof, antagonistic, antisocial, censorious, chilly, cold, combative, competitive, conflicting, contrary, disaffected, disagreeable, distant, estranged, grouchy, grudging, gruff, hateful, ill-disposed, inauspicious, inhospitable, inimical, malicious, malignant, misanthropic, not on speaking terms, opposed, opposite, quarrelsome, sour, spiteful, surly, uncharitable, uncongenial, unfavorable, unneighborly, unpropitious, unsociable, vengeful, warlike |
| Antonyms: | approachable, friendly, kind, nice, sociable |
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