- a person who believes that only selfishness motivates human actions and who disbelieves in or minimizes selfless acts or disinterested points of view.
- one of a sect of Greek philosophers, 4th century b.c., who advocated the doctrines that virtue is the only good, that the essence of virtue is self-control, and that surrender to any external influence is beneath human dignity.
- a person who shows or expresses a bitterly or sneeringly cynical attitude.
- cynical.
- of or relating to the Cynics or their doctrines.
- resembling the actions of a snarling dog.
- a person who believes the worst about people or the outcome of events
- a less common word for cynical
- of or relating to Sirius, the Dog Star
- a member of a sect founded by Antisthenes that scorned worldly things and held that self-control was the key to the only good
