Dictionary  cyn•icPronunciation: (sin'ik), [key] —n. 1. a person who believes that only selfishness motivates human actions and who disbelieves in or minimizes selfless acts or disinterested points of view. 2. (cap.) 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. 3. a person who shows or expresses a bitterly or sneeringly cynical attitude. —adj. 1. cynical. 2. (cap.) Also,Cynical.of or pertaining to the Cynics or their doctrines. 3. Med. Now Rare.resembling the actions of a snarling dog. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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