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English
Etymology
From misanthrope + -ic.
Pronunciation
Adjective
misanthropic (comparative more misanthropic, superlative most misanthropic)
- 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: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.
1876, James John Garth Wilkinson, On Human Science: Good and Evil, and on Divine Revelation:The torturers of any form of life torture the life. In this they are not only abominators of form, but haters of nature; and the violationist school is misozoic, life-hating; in continuation of that which it also is, misanthropic, or an enemy of mankind.
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Translations
disliking or hating mankind
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