Synonyms for Cynical:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • cynical.
  •antisocial (adjective)
  • un communicative,
  • re-tiring,
  • more eremetic,
  • with-drawn,
  • mis-anthropic,
  • most asocial,
  • more reclusive,
  • re-served,
  • most eremetic,
  • re tiring,
  • re-mote,
  • more hermitlike,
  • with drawn,
  • mis anthropic,
  • un friendly,
  • un friendliest,
  • un-friendliest,
  • anti social,
  • most hermitlike,
  • un friendlier,
  • un-friendlier,
  • re served,
  • solitary,
  • un-friendly,
  • un-communicative,
  • more asocial,
  • un sociable,
  • un-sociable.
  •crabby (adjective)
  • more mumpish,
  • chuffiest,
  • chuffier,
  • most mumpish.
  •crabby/crabbed (adjective)
  • more splenetic,
  • snappish,
  • more difficult,
  • most ill humored,
  • more illhumored,
  • badtempered,
  • ill-humored,
  • illtempered,
  • ill humored,
  • more ill humored,
  • bad tempered,
  • most nasty-tempered,
  • most illhumored,
  • most crabbed,
  • more nasty-tempered,
  • more nastytempered,
  • more nasty tempered,
  • morose,
  • illhumored,
  • most nasty tempered,
  • most ill-humored,
  • most splenetic,
  • splenetic,
  • nasty tempered,
  • ill tempered,
  • nastytempered,
  • huffy,
  • most nastytempered,
  • irritable,
  • more ill-humored.
  •critical (adjective)
  • calumniatory,
  • reproachful,
  • nit-picking,
  • Cavillous,
  • Exceptive,
  • sharp-tongued.
  •despairing (adjective)
  • more no-win,
  • at end one's rope,
  • in consolable,
  • more strabilious,
  • in soup,
  • cant win,
  • at end of one rope,
  • grief stricken,
  • de pressed,
  • in dumps,
  • at end rope,
  • most nowin,
  • most no win,
  • more nowin,
  • in-consolable,
  • more no win,
  • in the dumps,
  • at end one rope,
  • de-pressed,
  • most no-win,
  • more sunk,
  • most sunk,
  • at end ones rope,
  • no win,
  • nowin,
  • not prayer,
  • wretched,
  • most strabilious,
  • at end of ones rope,
  • in pits.
  •disbelieving (adjective)
  • wary,
  • unsure,
  • Distrusting,
  • aporetic,
  • doubting,
  • questioning,
  • SHOW-ME,
  • uncertain.
  •disenchanted (adjective)
  • sick of,
  • undeceived,
  • out of love,
  • disenthralled,
  • disentranced,
  • mondaine.
  •distrustful (adjective)
  • dis-trustful,
  • un easier,
  • uneasy,
  • un easiest,
  • dis trustful,
  • un-easiest,
  • un-easier,
  • un easy,
  • up tight,
  • un-easy,
  • up-tight.
  •dry (adjective)
  • low key,
  • salty.
  •forlorn (adjective)
  • de-stroyed,
  • de-solate,
  • helpless,
  • un-happy,
  • be-reft,
  • forgotten,
  • be reft,
  • un happy,
  • de solate,
  • down out,
  • un happiest,
  • un happier,
  • de stroyed.
  •hollow (adjective)
  • in-sincerest,
  • in-sincerer,
  • hypo-critical,
  • un-soundest,
  • in sincerer,
  • hypo critical,
  • in sincere,
  • un-sounder,
  • in sincerest,
  • un sound,
  • un-sound,
  • un sounder,
  • in-sincere.
  •hopeless (adjective)
  • up the creek,
  • irredeemable,
  • unachievable,
  • in despair,
  • beyond recall,
  • unmitigable,
  • past hope,
  • goner,
  • irremediable.
  •ironic/ironical (adjective)
  • most double edged,
  • in congruous,
  • more chaffing,
  • more double-edged,
  • un complimentary,
  • more paradoxical,
  • more doubleedged,
  • quick witted,
  • more ironic,
  • most doubleedged,
  • more uncomplimentary,
  • doubleedged,
  • double edged,
  • scathing,
  • most paradoxical,
  • most ironical,
  • most backbiting,
  • most jibing,
  • more jibing,
  • more backbiting,
  • un-complimentary,
  • more double edged,
  • in-congruous,
  • most double-edged,
  • most uncomplimentary,
  • most chaffing,
  • quickwitted.
  •irritable (adjective)
  • crabby.
  •jaundiced (adjective)
  • pre-possessed,
  • un indifferent,
  • more warped,
  • un fairer,
  • one sided,
  • un-fairest,
  • most preconceived,
  • more preconceived,
  • more unindifferent,
  • un-fair,
  • most warped,
  • un fair,
  • most unindifferent,
  • pre-conceived,
  • un fairest,
  • pre possessed,
  • un-indifferent,
  • most grudging,
  • pre conceived,
  • onesided,
  • in tolerant,
  • in-tolerant,
  • more grudging,
  • un-fairer.
  •let down (adjective)
  • disenchanted.
  •mistrustful (adjective)
  • mis trustful,
  • mis-trustful,
  • mistrustful.
  •negative (adjective)
  • naysaying,
  • dissentient,
  • recusant,
  • unaffirmative,
  • unenthusiastic,
  • Refusing,
  • Privative,
  • anti.
  •nonbelieving; doubtful (adjective)
  • unbelieving,
  • derisive.
  •overcritical (adjective)
  • over critical.
  •pessimistic (adjective)
  • most fatalistic,
  • more foreboding,
  • most foreboding,
  • re-signed,
  • fore boding,
  • fore-boding,
  • re signed,
  • more fatalistic.
  •sarcastic (adjective)
  • more needling,
  • more twitting,
  • more snarling,
  • most weisenheiming,
  • more weisenheiming,
  • needling,
  • more cussed,
  • most needling,
  • more taunting,
  • most twitting,
  • most snarling,
  • smartalecky,
  • most cussed,
  • most taunting.
  •satirical/satiric (adjective)
  • more parodying,
  • more ridiculing,
  • more bantering,
  • more spoofing,
  • more lampooning,
  • most parodying,
  • most lampooning,
  • most bantering,
  • most spoofing,
  • most ridiculing,
  • more satiric.
  •scornful (adjective)
  • in-solent,
  • in solent,
  • Over-bearing,
  • over bearing.
  •sharp-tongued (adjective)
  • sharp tongued,
  • most cursing,
  • more cursing,
  • sharptongued.
  •skeptical (adjective)
  • incredulous,
  • dubious,
  • doubtful,
  • freethinking.
  •sophisticated (adjective)
  • most jetset,
  • most citified,
  • more citified,
  • couther,
  • wised up,
  • more schooled,
  • most world weary,
  • laidback,
  • most into,
  • couthest,
  • more in to,
  • more uptown,
  • more world weary,
  • JETSET,
  • most jet-set,
  • more world-weary,
  • more jetset,
  • more jet-set,
  • up-town,
  • co uther,
  • most schooled,
  • re fined,
  • most uptown,
  • most worldweary,
  • most jet set,
  • most world-weary,
  • more jet set,
  • up town,
  • well bred,
  • in know,
  • wellbred,
  • most streetwise,
  • more worldweary,
  • on to,
  • world weary,
  • in to,
  • co-uther,
  • worldweary,
  • more into,
  • more streetwise.
  •sour (adjective)
  • un-pleasant,
  • dis agreeable,
  • dis-contented,
  • un pleasant,
  • un generous,
  • dis-pleasing,
  • dis contented,
  • illnatured,
  • dis pleasing,
  • un-generous,
  • ill natured,
  • dis-agreeable.
  •sullen (adjective)
  • grim,
  • cross,
  • beetle-browed,
  • frowning,
  • tenebrific,
  • uncooperative,
  • noncooperative,
  • moody,
  • unfriendly,
  • grumpy,
  • glum,
  • broody,
  • hostile,
  • irascible,
  • mean,
  • sourpussed,
  • glowering,
  • surly,
  • obstinate,
  • ungenial,
  • melancholy,
  • fretful,
  • cantankerous,
  • dejected,
  • petulant,
  • Moping,
  • dissociable,
  • dark,
  • malevolent,
  • dour,
  • scowling,
  • contrary,
  • sulky,
  • pouty,
  • long-faced,
  • grouchy.
  •unbelieving (adjective)
  • non believing,
  • un-believing,
  • un believing,
  • more nonbelieving,
  • most nonbelieving.
  •untrusting (adjective)
  • un-trusting,
  • un trusting.
  •wry (adjective)
  • aslant.

• n.

  •
  • ungenerous.
  •
  • hopeless,
  • wry,
  • respect,
  • attitude,
  • broken.
  •contemptuous (noun)
  • contemptuous.
  •sardonic (noun)
  • study at pessimistic.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • ironical,
  • doom-laden,
  • self-serving,
  • greedy,
  • mercenary,
  • grasping,
  • self-seeking,
  • selfish,
  • inward-looking,
  • rapacious,
  • Whipped,
  • bleakly,
  • apocalyptic,
  • self-absorbed,
  • voracious,
  • grabby,
  • self-centered,
  • acquisitive,
  • parasitic.
  •
  • bleak,
  • hopelessly,
  • bitter.
  •Other relevant words:
  • malefic,
  • fastidious,
  • defamatory,
  • crossroad,
  • snide,
  • disdainfully,
  • libelous,
  • bumptious,
  • unpleasant,
  • heavy-hearted,
  • impudent,
  • deprecatory,
  • resentfully,
  • fool,
  • malicious,
  • sham,
  • negatively,
  • mendacious,
  • carrefour,
  • acrid,
  • leery,
  • interbreeding,
  • aggressive,
  • despondent,
  • incredulously,
  • chary,
  • crossway,
  • acidic,
  • artificial,
  • cynically,
  • irregular,
  • counterfeit,
  • barbed,
  • nasty,
  • mug,
  • disappointed,
  • sly,
  • austere,
  • crucifix,
  • trenchant,
  • insincere,
  • severe,
  • corrosive,
  • fraudulent,
  • nervous,
  • unfavourable,
  • crabbed,
  • cavalier,
  • feigned,
  • supercilious,
  • testy,
  • Inconvincible,
  • resentful,
  • indifferent,
  • Scurrile,
  • hesitating,
  • vicious,
  • agnostic,
  • sulkily,
  • cramped,
  • Inconversable,
  • contemptuously,
  • virulent,
  • Troglodytic,
  • venomous,
  • abusive,
  • deceptive,
  • affliction,
  • drily,
  • tart,
  • difficult,
  • mark,
  • denigrating,
  • cutting,
  • derisively,
  • censorious,
  • false,
  • keen,
  • sad,
  • calumnious,
  • ascetic,
  • foul-spoken,
  • withering,
  • hypocritical,
  • slanderous,
  • inhospitable,
  • spiteful,
  • unsocial,
  • hesitant,
  • pessimistically,
  • marker,
  • cautious,
  • crossover,
  • biting,
  • doubtfully,
  • disparaging,
  • Ridiculing,
  • blue,
  • derisory,
  • scrupulous,
  • satirically,
  • envious,
  • Detractory,
  • incisive,
  • patsy,
  • hardened,
  • calculating,
  • contumelious,
  • crusty,
  • Detracting,
  • disapproving,
  • cheerless,
  • sharp,
  • disgraceful,
  • Dissocial,
  • unconvinced,
  • jealous,
  • disdainful,
  • shameless,
  • stinging,
  • gull,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • trying,
  • droll,
  • scurrilous,
  • unclubbable,
  • poisonous,
  • Aspersive,
  • crisscross,
  • cool,
  • Trustless,
  • sardonically,
  • sauvage,
  • unhappy,
  • dubiously,
  • unsentimental,
  • acrimonious,
  • deceitful,
  • inauspicious,
  • catty,
  • scornfully,
  • witty,
  • foul-mouthed,
  • depressed,
  • brand,
  • arrogant,
  • sarcastically,
  • joyless,
  • acidulous,
  • harsh,
  • derogatory,
  • mockingly,
  • puritanical,
  • acerbic,
  • haughty,
  • spurious,
  • miscegenation,
  • sullenly,
  • acid,
  • crossbreed,
  • hybridization,
  • disillusioned,
  • disabused,
  • chump,
  • downhearted,
  • unctuous,
  • Cavilling,
  • boastful.

Paraphrases for Cynical:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    sceptical, nasty.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    cynic, sarcastic, callous.

Antonyms for Cynical:

• adj.

  • nonbelieving; doubtful
    optimistic, undoubting, trusting, believing, hopeful.
  • Other antonyms:
    impractical, naive, cheerful, positive, idealistic, romantic, positivistic, positivist, sentimental, rose-colored, trustful.

Homophones for Cynical:

• cone cell, commingle, cheek muscle, canicule, counsel, Chinese Holly, conjugal, Chang Kuo-lao, common seal, canonical, chemical, choking coil, coaxingly, cacomixle, concisely, comical, chinchilla, china clay, cooking oil, cancel, congeal, console, conical, consciously, conceal, conjugally, chimney swallow, consul, council, casein glue, camachile, Congo Eel, commensal, camisole, cunningly, chancel, canicula, cynically, chemically, Chinese Wall.