misanthropic

From misanthrope +‎ -ic.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌmɪsənˈθɹɒpɪk/, /-zən-/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌmɪsənˈθɹɑpɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɒpɪk
• Hyphenation: mis‧an‧throp‧ic

misanthropic (comparative more misanthropic, superlative most misanthropic)

1. Having a negative view of mankind. This may express itself as, e.g., distrust, dislike, hate, or contempt.

   Antonym: philanthropic

   • 1860, Isaac Taylor, “Essay I. Ultimate Civilization.”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], →OCLC, part I, section IV, page 37:

     [C]hildren, ſervants, are falſe, fraudful, foul, if the miſanthropic man, who is father and maſter, lets fall among them, in his outbreaks of paſſion, his opinion that they are ſo.

   • 1876, James John Garth Wilkinson, On Human Science: Good and Evil, and on Divine Revelation:

     The torturers of any form of life torture the life. In this they are not only abominators of form, but haters of nature; and the violationist school is misozoic, life-hating; in continuation of that which it also is, misanthropic, or an enemy of mankind.

• antihuman