Meaning of INHUMAN
| Pronunciation: | | in'hyoomun
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- [adj] belonging to or resembling something nonhuman; "something dark and inhuman in form"; "a babel of inhuman noises"
- [adj] without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction"
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| | Synonyms: | | cold, cold-blooded, inhumane, insensate, nonhuman |
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| | Definition: | | \In*hu"man\, a. [L. inhumanus: cf. F. inhumain. See
{In-} not, and {Human}.]
1. Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a
human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an
inhuman person or people.
2. Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an
inhuman act or punishment.
Syn: Cruel; unfeeling; pitiless; merciless; savage;
barbarous; brutal; ferocious; ruthless; fiendish.
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| | Related Terms: | | animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, callous, cannibalistic, cold-blooded, cruel, cruel-hearted, demoniac, demoniacal, demonic, demonish, demonlike, devilish, devil-like, diabolic, diabolical, Draconian, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, ghoulish, heartless, hellish, implacable, infernal, inhumane, insensitive, kill-crazy, malicious, malign, malignant, merciless, murderous, noncivilized, ogreish, pitiless, relentless, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, severe, sharkish, slavering, subhuman, tameless, Tartarean, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, uncompassionate, unfeeling, ungentle, unhuman, unkind, unkindly, unrelenting, unsympathetic, untamed, vicious, wild, wolfish |
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