Usually means: Distrustful of human nature, motives.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word cynical:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. cynical: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cynical: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cynical: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cynical: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cynical: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cynical, cynical: Wordnik
  7. cynical: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cynical, cynical: Wiktionary
  9. cynical: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cynical: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cynical: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cynical: Dictionary.com
  13. cynical: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Cynical (song), Cynical: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cynical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cynical: Rhymezone
  17. Cynical: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. cynical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. cynical: Free Dictionary
  20. cynical: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. cynical: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. cynical: Legal dictionary

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  1. cynical: Encyclopedia

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of or relating to the belief that human actions are motivated only or primarily by base desires or selfishness.
adjective:  Skeptical of the integrity, sincerity, or motives of others.
adjective:  Bitterly or jadedly distrustful or contemptuous; mocking.
adjective:  Showing contempt for accepted moral standards by one's actions.
adjective:  (medicine, rare) Like the actions of a snarling dog, especially in reference to facial nerve paralysis.
adjective:  Of or relating to the Cynics, a sect of Ancient Greek philosophers who believed virtue to be the only good and self-control to be the only means of achieving virtue.

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