misanthropic

English

WOTD – 15 March 2010

Etymology

From misanthrope +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌmɪsənˈθɹɒpɪk/, /-zən-/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌmɪsənˈθɹɑpɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɒpɪk
• Hyphenation: mis‧an‧throp‧ic

Adjective

misanthropic (comparative more misanthropic, superlative most misanthropic)

1. Having a negative view of mankind. This may express itself as, e.g., distrust, dislike, hate, or contempt.

   Antonym: philanthropic

   • 1860, Isaac Taylor, “Essay I. Ultimate Civilization.”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], →OCLC, part I, section IV, page 37:

     [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.

Coordinate terms

• antihuman

Derived terms

• misanthropical
• misanthropically

Related terms

• misanthrope
• misanthropist
• misanthropy

Translations

disliking or hating mankind

• Armenian: մարդատյաց (hy) (mardatyacʿ)
• Catalan: misantròpic
• Danish: misantropisk, menneskefjendsk
• Esperanto: hommalama
• Finnish: misantrooppinen
• French: misanthropique (fr)
• Greek:

  Ancient: μισάνθρωπος (misánthrōpos)

• Hungarian: mizantrópikus, embergyűlölő (hu), mizantróp (hu)
• Irish: míchaidreamhach
• Italian: misantropico (it)
• Macedonian: мизантро́пски (mizantrópski)
• Norwegian: misantropisk
• Polish: mizantropijny (pl)
• Portuguese: misantropo (pt), misantrópico
• Russian: мизантропи́ческий (ru) (mizantropíčeskij), человеконенави́стнический (ru) (čelovekonenavístničeskij)
• Serbo-Croatian: mizantropski (sh)
• Spanish: misantrópico
• Swedish: misantropisk (sv)
• Ukrainian: людиноненави́сницький (ljudynonenavýsnycʹkyj), людиноненави́дницький (ljudynonenavýdnycʹkyj), мізантропський (mizantropsʹkyj)

See also

• altruism
• misandry
• misogyny
• philandry
• philogyny
• Timonian