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Definition of Inhuman
1. Adjective. Without compunction or human feeling. "Insensate destruction"
2. Adjective. Belonging to or resembling something nonhuman. "A babel of inhuman noises"
Definition of Inhuman
1. a. Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people.
Definition of Inhuman
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to inhumanity and the indifferently cruel, sadistic or barbaric behavior it brings. ¹
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Definition of Inhuman
1. lacking desirable human qualities [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inhuman
Literary usage of Inhuman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ultimate Conceptions of Faith by George Angier Gordon (1903)
"Man is no match for a wholly inhuman universe. ... Fix in the human mind the idea
that the character of the Infinite is inhuman, and the ethical idealism ..."
2. History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America by Henry Wilson (1875)
"inhuman legislation. — In Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, and Missouri. ... All this
is but too painfully apparent from a reference to the inhuman and ..."
3. War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ by David Low Dodge, Edwin Doak Mead (1905)
"WAR IS inhuman I. BECAUSE IT HARDENS THE HEART AND BLUNTS THE TENDER FEELINGS OF
MANKIND That it is the duty of mankind to be tender-hearted, ..."
4. A Pilgrimage in Europe and America, Leading to the Discovery of the Sources by Giacomo Costantino Beltrami (1828)
"No one, however, considers the work inhuman, but, on the contrary, it is deemed
a most incumbent and sacred duty. The martyr not unfrequently expires ..."
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