| 单词 | human |
| 释义 | human[ hyoo-muhn or, often, yoo‐ ] / ˈhyu mən or, often, ˈyu‐ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR human ON THESAURUS.COM adjectiveof, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty. consisting of people: the human race. of or relating to the social aspect of people: human affairs. sympathetic; humane: a warmly human understanding. nouna human being. Origin of human1350–1400; earlier humain(e), humayn(e),Middle English <Middle French humain<Latin hūmānus, akin to homō human being (cf. Homo); spelling human predominant from early 18th cent. synonym study for human1. Human, humane may refer to that which is, or should be, characteristic of human beings. In thus describing characteristics, human may refer to good and bad traits of a person alike ( human kindness; human weakness ). When emphasis is placed upon the latter, human is thought of as contrasted to divine: To err is human, to forgive divine. He was only human. Humane (the original spelling of human, and since 1700 restricted in meaning) takes into account only the nobler or gentler aspects of people and is often contrasted to their more ignoble or brutish aspect. A humane person is benevolent in treating fellow humans or helpless animals; the word once had also connotations of courtesy and refinement (hence, the application of humane to those branches of learning intended to refine the mind). pronunciation note for humanPronunciations of words like human, huge, etc., with the initial [h] /h/ deleted: [yoo-muhn], /ˈyu mən/, [yooj], /yudʒ/, while sometimes criticized, are heard from speakers at all social and educational levels, including professors, lawyers, and other public speakers. OTHER WORDS FROM humanWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH humanhuman , humane (see synonym study at the current entry)Words nearby humanhully gully, Hulme, Hulse, hum, Humacao, human, human antihemophilic factor, human being, human body, human capital, human chorionic gonadotropin Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for humanBritish Dictionary definitions for humanhuman / (ˈhjuːmən) / adjectiveof, characterizing, or relating to man and mankindhuman nature consisting of peoplethe human race; a human chain having the attributes of man as opposed to animals, divine beings, or machineshuman failings
nouna human being; person Other words from humanRelated prefix: anthropo-Derived forms of humanhuman-like, adjectivehumanness, nounWord Origin for humanC14: from Latin hūmānus; related to Latin homō man Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with humanhuman see milk of human kindness. The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Scientific definitions for humanhuman [ hyōō′mən ] A member of the species Homo sapiens; a human being. A member of any of the extinct species of the genus Homo, such as Homo erectus or Homo habilis, that are considered ancestral or closely related to modern humans. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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