Cynic

词形变化

Cynics 复数 Cynics

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A member of 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.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Of or relating to the Cynics.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

faultfinder

上位词 1

philosopher

下位词 4

knocker detractor depreciator disparager

词源

First used in English around 1540–50. From Latin Cynicus (cynic philosopher), from Ancient Greek Κυνικός (Kunikós, from κύων (kúōn, “dog”, see Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ) + -ικός (-ikós), literally “doglike, currish”). The word may have first been applied to Cynics because of the nickname κύων (kúōn, “dog”) given to Diogenes of Sinope, the prototypical Cynic.

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