Definition of "misanthrope"

misanthrope

/ˈmɪs.ənˌθɹəʊp/

noun
plural misanthropes
1. One who has a negative view of the entire human race. This may express itself as, e.g., distrust, dislike, hate, or contempt.
  Quotations
  Alas, poor Dean! his only scopeWas to be held a misanthrope.
  1731, Jonathan Swift, On the Death of Jonathan Swift
  I cannot love evergreens—they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline; they are cut off from the sweetest of all ties with their kind—sympathy.
  1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 50