Misanthrope Definition

mĭsən-thrōp, mĭz-
misanthropes
noun
misanthropes
A person who hates or distrusts all people.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Misanthrope

Noun

Singular:
misanthrope
Plural:
misanthropes

Origin of Misanthrope

  • French from Greek mīsanthrōpos hating mankind mīso- miso- anthrōpos man

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Ancient Greek to hate + a man; compare French misanthrope and English miser.

    From Wiktionary

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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