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Definition of inhuman adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

inhuman

adjective
 
/ɪnˈhjuːmən/
 
/ɪnˈhjuːmən/
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  1. 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
    adverb
    • totally
    • utterly
    • almost
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  2. not human; not seeming to be produced by a human and therefore frightening
    • There was a strange inhuman sound.
  3. 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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