misanthropic

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. Disliking or hating mankind.

   Antonym: philanthropic

   • 1860, Isaac Taylor, “Essay I. Ultimate Civilization.”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], OCLC 6077058, 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 Chinese: Mandarin: 厭惡人類的／厌恶人类的 (yànwù rénlèi de) 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 Ukrainian: людиноненави́сницький (ljudynonenavýsnycʹkyj), людиноненави́дницький (ljudynonenavýdnycʹkyj), мізантропський (mizantropsʹkyj)

See also

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