Words and phrases that have a meaning related to cynic: (139 results)
Often used in the same context:
pessimist, sentimentalist, skeptic, optimist, curmudgeon, naysayer, wishful thinking, hater, fatalist, killjoy, doomsayer, windbag, luddite, realist, churl, humbug, panglossian, masochist, philistine, pollyannaish, solipsist, geezer, pedant, dunderhead, flatterer, grouch, chowderhead, grump, dullard, junkie, boor, scribbler, fool, zealot, dilettante, moralist, tosspot, moron, male chauvinist pig, mountebank, folly, dreamer, softie, delusion, tautology, snob, prevaricator, poseur, misanthrope, mumbler, idealist, copout, rube, hokum, nitpicker, nutcase, claptrap, apologist, cynicism, schnook, kidder, poppycock, gloomy gus, moralizer, nitwit, practicer, bluffer, codger, sycophant, flapdoodle, fogy, cheapskate, fibber, dittohead, giggler, prig, pragmatist, rotter, sucker, ranter, nostalgist, sceptics, sourpuss, naivete, peacenik, pathetic fallacy, controversialist, hypocrite, wishful thinker, groupie, mensch, dogmatist, idiot, piffle, nihilist, old codger, daydreamer, matalin, braggart, disbeliever, cynics, sceptic, egoist, romanticist, egotist, opportunist, autocrat, coward, materialist, pacifist, satirist, epicurean, nietzschean, stoic, platonic, rationalistic, socratic, neoplatonic, erasmian, hegelian, kantian, mahayana, pharisaic, deistic, gnostic, schopenhauerian, sophistic, stoical, baconian, existentialist, heraclitean
More specific:
depreciator, detractor, disparager, knocker
Appears in the definition of:
diogenes
More general:
disagreeable person, unpleasant person
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— Nouns for cynic: philosopher, school, philosophers, philosophy, fortune, tradition, sect, movement, diogenes, life, smile, more...
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