| 单词 | cynic |
| 释义 | cynic /sin"ik/, n. 1. a person who believes that only selfishness motivates human actions and who disbelieves in or minimizes selfless acts or disinterested points of view. 2. (cap.) one of a sect of Greek philosophers, 4th century B.C., who advocated the doctrines that virtue is the only good, that the essence of virtue is self-control, and that surrender to any external influence is beneath human dignity. 3. a person who shows or expresses a bitterly or sneeringly cynical attitude. adj. 4. cynical. 5. (cap.) Also, Cynical. of or pertaining to the Cynics or their doctrines. 6. Med. Now Rare. resembling the actions of a snarling dog. [1540-50; < L Cynicus < Gk Kynikós Cynic, lit., doglike, currish, equiv. to kyn- (s. of kýon) dog + -ikos - IC] Syn. 1, 3. skeptic, pessimist, misanthrope. |
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