inhuman

Speech parts

1. inhuman - Adjective

2. inhuman - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people.

Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

savage cold brutal cruel ruthless ferocious cold-blooded barbarous merciless unfeeling pitiless fiendish insensate satanic unearthly
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Antonyms

humane clement beneficent good human earthborn
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Phrases with the word

characterize as inhuman

Anagrams

humanin

Examples

A person cannot choose the time in which he is born or lives; it is not up to him, who his parents are, or the nation he will be born into, but what he is responsible for is how he will act in that given time: will he be human or inhuman. Pavle (Serbian)

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. James Baldwin

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them. Ivo Andrić

Bourgeois political economy ... never gets to see man who is its real subject. It disregards the essence of man and his history and is thus in the profoundest sense not a ‘science of people' but of non-people and of an inhuman world of objects and commodities. Herbert Marcuse

The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way. Alan Bullock

Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same. James Russell Lowell

Close letter words and terms

inhospitality inhouse inhowfar inhuman treatment inhumane inhumane treatment