What is another word for cynical?
567 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ sˈɪnɪkə͡l], [ sˈɪnɪkəl], [ s_ˈɪ_n_ɪ_k_əl]Table of Contents
Similar words for cynical:- all (adjective)
- antisocial (adjective)
- crabby (adjective)
- crabby/crabbed (adjective)
- critical (adjective)
- despairing (adjective)
- disbelieving (adjective)
- disenchanted (adjective)
- distrustful (adjective)
- dry (adjective)
- forlorn (adjective)
- hollow (adjective)
- hopeless (adjective)
- ironic/ironical (adjective)
- irritable (adjective)
- jaundiced (adjective)
- let down (adjective)
- mistrustful (adjective)
- negative (adjective)
- nonbelieving; doubtful (adjective)
- overcritical (adjective)
- pessimistic (adjective)
- sarcastic (adjective)
- satirical/satiric (adjective)
- scornful (adjective)
- sharp-tongued (adjective)
- skeptical (adjective)
- sophisticated (adjective)
- sour (adjective)
- sullen (adjective)
- unbelieving (adjective)
- untrusting (adjective)
- wry (adjective)
- contemptuous (noun)
- sardonic (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Cynical:
adj.
•all (adjective) •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.
- 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.
- 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.
- dis-trustful,
- un easier,
- uneasy,
- un easiest,
- dis trustful,
- un-easiest,
- un-easier,
- un easy,
- up tight,
- un-easy,
- up-tight.
- de-stroyed,
- de-solate,
- helpless,
- un-happy,
- be-reft,
- forgotten,
- be reft,
- un happy,
- de solate,
- down out,
- un happiest,
- un happier,
- de stroyed.
- 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.
- up the creek,
- irredeemable,
- unachievable,
- in despair,
- beyond recall,
- unmitigable,
- past hope,
- goner,
- irremediable.
- 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.
- 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.
- most fatalistic,
- more foreboding,
- most foreboding,
- re-signed,
- fore boding,
- fore-boding,
- re signed,
- more fatalistic.
- 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.
- more parodying,
- more ridiculing,
- more bantering,
- more spoofing,
- more lampooning,
- most parodying,
- most lampooning,
- most bantering,
- most spoofing,
- most ridiculing,
- more satiric.
- 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.
- un-pleasant,
- dis agreeable,
- dis-contented,
- un pleasant,
- un generous,
- dis-pleasing,
- dis contented,
- illnatured,
- dis pleasing,
- un-generous,
- ill natured,
- dis-agreeable.
- 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.
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- ungenerous.
Other synonyms:
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- 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.
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- bleak,
- hopelessly,
- bitter.
- 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.
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Antonyms for Cynical:
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adj.
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nonbelieving; doubtful
optimistic, undoubting, trusting, believing, hopeful.
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Other antonyms:
impractical, naive, cheerful, positive, idealistic, romantic, positivistic, positivist, sentimental, rose-colored, trustful.
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nonbelieving; doubtful
Homophones for Cynical:
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