Adjacent Words

inhumane definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion; "humans are innately inhumane; this explains much of the misery and suffering in the world"; "biological weapons are considered too inhumane to be used" [ant: humane]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle French inhumain & Latin inhumanus Date: 1536 not humane ; inhuman 1 <the inhumane treatment of prisoners> • inhumanely adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. not humane. Derivatives: inhumanely adv. Etymology: L inhumanus (see INHUMAN) & f. IN-(1) + HUMANE, orig. = INHUMAN

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe something as inhumane, you mean that it is extremely cruel. He was kept under inhumane conditions... ? humane ADJ