curmudgeon, misanthrope

Gregory House, M.D., is a fictional antihero[1] and title character of the American medical drama House. Portrayed by Hugh Laurie, the character is a medical genius; a diagnostician with specializations in infectious diseases and nephrology. He works as the Chief of Diagnostic Medicine at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, where he heads a team of diagnosticians. House's character has been described as a "misanthrope", a "cynic", a narcissist and a "curmudgeon".


While the show was originally set to be a medical procedural, the idea changed when the writers started to explore the possibilities of a curmudgeonly title character.[58]




misanthrope

• [mísənθròup]

[名]((形式))人間［交際］嫌いの人. （またmis・án・thro・pist）



curmudgeon
(kər-mŭj'ən)
n.
An ill-tempered person full of resentment and stubborn notions.

[Origin unknown.]

curmudgeonly cur·mudg'eon·ly adj.
curmudgeonry cur·mudg'eon·ry n.