1. (a.) Skeptical about moral values and practices\; snarling; captious; currish.

2. (a.) Pertaining to the Dog Star; as, the cynic, or Sothic, year; cynic cycle.

3. (a.) Belonging to the sect of philosophers called cynics; having the qualities of a cynic; pertaining to, or resembling, the doctrines of the cynics.

4. (a.) Given to sneering at rectitude and the conduct of life by moral principles; disbelieving in the reality of any human purposes which are not suggested or directed by self-interest or self-indulgence; as, a cynical man who scoffs at pretensions of integrity; characterized by such opinions; as, cynical views of human nature.

Cassandra-like Cassandran Cassandrian Rabelaisian Timonistic antisocial captious carping caustic caviling critical defeatist dismal downbeat dry faultfinding gloomy hairsplitting hypercritical ironic man-hating misogynous nagging negative negativistic niggling nihilistic overcritical pessimist pessimistic pettifogging quibbling sarcastic sardonic satiric sexist trichoschistic ultracritical uncheerful unsociable woman-hating