"inhuman" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ɪnˈhjuːmən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-inhuman.wav Forms: more inhuman [comparative], most inhuman [superlative]
Rhymes: -uːmən Etymology: From Middle English inhumayne, from Middle French inhumain and its etymon Latin inhūmānus. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|inhumayne}} Middle English inhumayne, {{der|en|frm|inhumain}} Middle French inhumain, {{der|en|la|inhūmānus}} Latin inhūmānus Head templates: {{en-adj}} inhuman (comparative more inhuman, superlative most inhuman)
  1. Of or pertaining to inhumanity and the indifferently cruel, sadistic or barbaric behavior it brings. Translations (cruel and savage, not humane): onmenslike (Afrikaans), i panjerëzishëm (Albanian), غَيْر إِنْسَانِيّ (ḡayr ʔinsāniyy) (Arabic), qeyri-insani (Azerbaijani), негума́нны (njehumánny) (Belarusian), бесчалаве́чны (bjesčalavjéčny) (Belarusian), нялю́дзкі (njaljúdzki) (Belarusian), нехума́нен (nehumánen) (Bulgarian), безчове́чен (bezčovéčen) (Bulgarian), ဆန်သောရက်စက် (hcansau:rakcak) (Burmese), inhumà (Catalan), dili-makitawhanong (Cebuano), 不人道的 (bùréndào de) (Chinese Mandarin), inumanu (Corsican), nelidský (Czech), nehumánní (Czech), umenneskelig (Danish), inhuman (Danish), onmenselijk (Dutch), inhumaan (Dutch), malhumana (Esperanto), epäinhimillinen (Finnish), inhumain [masculine] (French), unmenschlich (German), inhuman (German), αφιλάνθρωπος (afilánthropos) (Greek), embertelen (Hungarian), ómannúðlega (Icelandic), nehumana (Ido), nehumanoza (Ido), tak berperikemanusiaan (Indonesian), mídhaonnachtúil (Irish), inumano (Italian), disumano (Italian), 非人道的 (hijindōteki) (alt: ひじんどうてき) (Japanese), адамгершіліксіз (adamgerşılıksız) (Kazakh), 비인도적 (biindojeok) (alt: 非人道的) (Korean), inhumanum (Latin), inhumanis (Latin), nehumāns (Latvian), нечовечен (nečovečen) (Macedonian), нехуман (nehuman) (Macedonian), മനുഷ്യത്വരഹിതമായ (manuṣyatvarahitamāya) (Malayalam), inumani (Maltese), inhuman (Norwegian Bokmål), umenneskelig (Norwegian Bokmål), unmennisċlīċ (Old English), غیر انسانی (ğeyr-e ensâni) (Persian), ommenschlich (Plautdietsch), niehumanitarny (Polish), inumano (Portuguese), desumano (Portuguese), desumana (Portuguese), inuman (Romanian), neomenos (Romanian), бесчелове́чный (besčelovéčnyj) (Russian), негума́нный (negumánnyj) (Russian), не̏хума̄н [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), не̏човечан [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), не̏човјечан [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), nȅhumān [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), nȅčovečan [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), nȅčovječan [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), neľudský (Slovak), nehumánny (Slovak), nehuman (Slovene), nečlovečen (Slovene), inhumano (Spanish), omänsklig (Swedish), inhuman (Swedish), ғайриинсонӣ (ġayriyinsoni) (Tajik), అమానవీయంగా (amānavīyaṅgā) (Telugu), негума́нний (nehumánnyj) (Ukrainian), нелю́дський (neljúdsʹkyj) (Ukrainian), нелю́дяний (neljúdjanyj) (Ukrainian), gʻayriinsoniy (Uzbek), אוממענטשלעך (ummentshlekh) (Yiddish) Translations (of or pertaining to inhumanity): ἀπάνθρωπος (apánthrōpos) (Ancient Greek), безчове́чен (bezčovéčen) (Bulgarian), жесто́к (žestók) (Bulgarian), свире́п (svirép) (Bulgarian), inhumà (Catalan), 非人 (fēirén) (Chinese Mandarin), nelidský (Czech), onmenselijk (Dutch), nehoma (Esperanto), epäinhimillinen (Finnish), inhumain (French), არაადამიანური (araadamianuri) (Georgian), unmenschlich (German), απάνθρωπος (apánthropos) (Greek), nehomala (Ido), nehomana (Ido), адамгершіліксіз (adamgerşılıksız) (Kazakh), нечовечен (nečovečen) (Macedonian), жесток (žestok) (Macedonian), unmennisċlīċ (Old English), inuman (Romanian), бесчелове́чный (besčelovéčnyj) (Russian), антигума́нный (antigumánnyj) (Russian), жесто́кий (žestókij) (Russian), inhumano (Spanish), omänsklig (Swedish), అమానుషము (amānuṣamu) (Telugu), нелю́дський (neljúdsʹkyj) (Ukrainian), нелю́дяний (neljúdjanyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-inhuman-en-adj-SNU4jP7u Categories (other): Terms with Ancient Greek translations Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 45 55 Disambiguation of 'cruel and savage, not humane': 85 15 Disambiguation of 'of or pertaining to inhumanity': 98 2
  2. Transcending or different than what is human.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms (sense 1): inhumane Related terms: unhuman
Disambiguation of 'sense 1': 0 0

Alternative forms

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          "sense": "of or pertaining to inhumanity",
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
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          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "araadamianuri",
          "sense": "of or pertaining to inhumanity",
          "word": "არაადამიანური"
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          "sense": "of or pertaining to inhumanity",
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          "sense": "of or pertaining to inhumanity",
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          "roman": "neljúdsʹkyj",
          "sense": "of or pertaining to inhumanity",
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          "sense": "of or pertaining to inhumanity",
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          "_dis1": "85 15",
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          "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
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          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ḡayr ʔinsāniyy",
          "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
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          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
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          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "njehumánny",
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          "word": "нялю́дзкі"
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          "code": "my",
          "lang": "Burmese",
          "roman": "hcansau:rakcak",
          "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
          "word": "ဆန်သောရက်စက်"
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          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
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          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "ceb",
          "lang": "Cebuano",
          "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
          "word": "dili-makitawhanong"
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          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "bùréndào de",
          "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
          "word": "不人道的"
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          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "co",
          "lang": "Corsican",
          "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
          "word": "inumanu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
          "word": "nelidský"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
          "word": "nehumánní"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
          "word": "umenneskelig"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
          "word": "inhuman"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
          "word": "onmenselijk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
          "word": "inhumaan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
          "word": "malhumana"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
          "word": "epäinhimillinen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "inhumain"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
          "word": "unmenschlich"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
          "word": "inhuman"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "afilánthropos",
          "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
          "word": "αφιλάνθρωπος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
          "word": "embertelen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
          "word": "ómannúðlega"
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          "_dis1": "85 15",
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          "text": "The organism that embraces this theme in its devious ramifications is the great business house of Dombey and Son, symptom and epitome of selfish money power and warping tyranny. And the special symbol that spells wreckage, devastation, and the unleashed violence of the inhuman force that thus came to possess mankind is that new monster of the mid-nineteenth-century world, heartless embodiment of mechanized energy, the railroad —the same railroad so often pictured in the Punch of those days or in the maledictions of Ruskin as a glaring, headlit engine of destruction, gouging open the green English landscape or the outposts of London, riding down the lives of men, and bringing the smoke and soot of industrialism in its wake: the dragon of a world grown heartless and of a future that promised to become more heartless still.",
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          "text": "“Well, so you are,’ Martha answered. ‘It struck me once or twice. You don’t ook like him, but you’ve got the same voice ind walk and you appear to have the same ‘ort of inhuman strength. Look at this.”",
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      "word": "అమానుషము"
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      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "ဆန်သောရက်စက်"
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      "word": "ómannúðlega"
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      "word": "mídhaonnachtúil"
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      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "비인도적"
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      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "മനുഷ്യത്വരഹിതമായ"
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      "word": "inhuman"
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      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
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      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "unmennisċlīċ"
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      "word": "غیر انسانی"
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    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "ommenschlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "niehumanitarny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "inumano"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "desumano"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "desumana"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "inuman"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "neomenos"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "besčelovéčnyj",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "бесчелове́чный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "negumánnyj",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "негума́нный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "не̏хума̄н"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "не̏човечан"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "не̏човјечан"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "nȅhumān"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "nȅčovečan"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "nȅčovječan"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "neľudský"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "nehumánny"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "nehuman"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "nečlovečen"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "inhumano"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "omänsklig"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "inhuman"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "ġayriyinsoni",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "ғайриинсонӣ"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "amānavīyaṅgā",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "అమానవీయంగా"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nehumánnyj",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "негума́нний"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "neljúdsʹkyj",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "нелю́дський"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "neljúdjanyj",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "нелю́дяний"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "gʻayriinsoniy"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "ummentshlekh",
      "sense": "cruel and savage, not humane",
      "word": "אוממענטשלעך"
    }
  ],
  "word": "inhuman"
}

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