inhuman
adjective/ɪnˈhjuːmən/
/ɪnˈhjuːmən/
- not showing sympathy or kind feelings for people who are suffering; very cruel
- inhuman and degrading treatment
- What she proposes is positively inhuman!
- The photos showed inhuman and degrading conditions.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- consider something
- regard something as
- …
- totally
- utterly
- almost
- …
- not human; not seeming to be produced by a human and therefore frightening
- There was a strange inhuman sound.
compare human, non-human, subhuman
Word Originlate Middle English (originally as inhumane): from Latin inhumanus, from in- ‘not’ + humanus (from homo ‘man, human being’).
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