Villain vs Cynic - What's the difference?
villain | cynic |
(rfc-sense) (en) A vile, wicked person.
# An extremely depraved person, or one capable or guilty of great crimes.
# A deliberate scoundrel.
The bad person in a work of fiction; often the main antagonist of the hero.
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cynical (in all senses)
(not comparable) Relating to the Dog Star.
A person who believes that all people are motivated by selfishness.
A person whose outlook is scornfully negative.
As nouns the difference between villain and cynic
is that villain is a vile, wicked person while cynic is a person who believes that all people are motivated by selfishness.As a verb villain
is to debase; to degrade.As an adjective cynic is
cynical (in all senses.As a proper noun Cynic is
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.villain
English
(wikipedia villain)Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain , and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
- As The Dark Knight Rises brings a close to Christopher Nolan’s staggeringly ambitious Batman trilogy, it’s worth remembering that director chose The Scarecrow as his first villain —not necessarily the most popular among the comic’s gallery of rogues, but the one who set the tone for entire series.
Synonyms
* knave * rascal * scamp * bad guy * cad * See also * See also *antagonistDerived terms
* supervillain * villainesscynic
English
(wikipedia cynic)Alternative forms
* cynick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- the cynic''', or Sothic, year; '''cynic cycle