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inhuman(dictionary)

inhuman (iou)



inhuman adjective & noun. Also (earlier) inhumane. LME.
[Latin inhumanus, formed as IN-3 + humanus HUMAN adjective.]
A. adjective.
1. Of a person: callous, unfeeling, merciless. Of conduct, an action, etc.: brutal, barbarous, cruel. Cf. INHUMANE 2. LME.
Shakespeare Titus Andronicus Her spotless chastity, Inhuman traitors, you constrain'd and forc'd. C. G. Wolff Having been dehumanized, they act with inhuman indifference to the feelings of others.
2. Not human; not of the normal human type. M16.
J. B. Cabell Planet-stricken folk, who had spied..upon an inhuman loveliness, and so, must pine away.
B. noun. A brutal or subhuman person. M17-M18.
inhumanly adverb L15.
inhumanness [-n-n-] noun (rare) M17.