Misanthrope Synonyms and Antonyms

mĭsən-thrōp, mĭz-
A person who expects only the worst from people
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. misanthropist
  2. cynic
  3. misogynist
  4. doubter
  5. man-hater
  6. woman-hater
  7. recluse
  8. isolate
  9. loner
Antonyms:
  1. philanthropist
  2. humanitarian

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Misanthrope Sentence Examples

  • For many years, nevertheless, he maintained a correspondence with Pope and Bolingbroke, and with Arbuthnot and Gay until their deaths, with such warmth as to prove that an ill opinion of mankind had not made him a misanthrope, and that human affection and sympathy were still very necessary to him.

  • In his judgments of mankind he often talked as a misanthrope.

  • The result was that Carlyle was too often judged by his defects, and regarded as a selfish and eccentric misanthrope with flashes of genius, rather than as a man with many of the highest qualities of mind and character clouded by constitutional infirmities.

  • A misanthrope who minimizes human contact is not thereby debarred from being a graduate.

  • Is Bob Fingerman a cynical misanthrope or a disappointed humanitarian?

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