subhuman

Speech parts

1. subhuman - Noun

2. subhuman - Adjective

3. subhuman - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

unfit for human beings

less than human or not worthy of a human being

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Examples

If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human. Ihara Saikaku

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. Robert A. Heinlein

I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts. Lester Bangs

That's what the Nazis did, isn't it? Treated those "others" they thought subhuman by making them lab subjects and so on. Even the Nazis didn't eat the objects of their derision. Ingrid Newkirk

When a normal ensign looked at his commander, he ought to see a godlike being, not a, a... future subordinate. New ensigns were supposed to be a subhuman species anyway. Lois McMaster Bujold

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike. Henry Louis Gates

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