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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective inhuman has 2 senses
- inhuman(s = adj.all) cold, cold-blooded, insensate - without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" Derived form noun inhumanity1
- inhuman(s = adj.all) Array - belonging to or resembling something nonhuman; "something dark and inhuman in form"; "a babel of inhuman noises"
CIDE DICTIONARY
- Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people. [1913 Webster]
- Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment.
Syn. -- Cruel; unfeeling; pitiless; merciless; savage; barbarous; brutal; ferocious; ruthless; fiendish.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
inhuman, adj.
1 (of a person, conduct, etc.) brutal; unfeeling; barbarous.
2 not of a human type.
1 (of a person, conduct, etc.) brutal; unfeeling; barbarous.
2 not of a human type.
Derivative
inhumanly adv.
Etymology
L inhumanus (as IN-(1), HUMAN)
THESAURUS
inhuman
Draconian, Tartarean, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, callous, cannibalistic, cold-blooded, cruel, cruel-hearted, demoniac, demoniacal, demonic, demonish, demonlike, devil-like, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, ghoulish, heartless, hellish, implacable, infernal, inhumane, insensitive, kill-crazy, malicious, malign, malignant, merciless, murderous, noncivilized, ogreish, pitiless, relentless, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, severe, sharkish, slavering, subhuman, tameless, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, uncompassionate, unfeeling, ungentle, unhuman, unkind, unkindly, unrelenting, unsympathetic, untamed, vicious, wild, wolfishROGET THESAURUS
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Malevolence
N malevolence, bad intent, bad intention, unkindness, diskindness, ill nature, ill will, ill blood, bad blood, enmity, hate, malignity, malice, malice prepense, maliciousness, spite, despite, resentment, uncharitableness, incompassionateness, gall, venom, rancor, rankling, virulence, mordacity, acerbity churlishness, hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy, cruelty, cruelness, brutality, savagery, ferity, ferocity, barbarity, inhumanity, immanity, truculence, ruffianism, evil eye, cloven foot, torture, vivisection, ill turn, bad turn, affront, outrage, atrocity, ill usage, intolerance, persecution, tender mercies, unkindest cut of all, malevolent, unbenevolent, unbenign, ill-disposed, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, ill-conditioned, ill-contrived, evil-minded, evil- disposed, black-browed, malicious, malign, malignant, rancorous, despiteful, spiteful, mordacious, caustic, bitter, envenomed, acrimonious, virulent, unamiable, uncharitable, maleficent, venomous, grinding, galling, harsh, disobliging, unkind, unfriendly, ungracious, inofficious, invidious, uncandid, churlish, surly, sullen, cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, black-hearted, hard-hearted, flint-hearted, marble-hearted, stony-hearted, hard of heart, unnatural, ruthless, relentless, cruel, brutal, brutish, savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger, ferine, ferocious, inhuman, barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary, bloodthirsty, atrocious, bloodyminded, fiendish, fiendlike, demoniacal, diabolic, diabolical, devilish, infernal, hellish, Satanic, Tartaran, malevolently, with bad intent, cruel as death, hard unkindness' alter'd eye, homo homini lupus, mala mens, malus animus, rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind, sharp-tooth'd unkindness.
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