Definition of human in English:

human

adjective ˈhjuːmənˈ(h)jumən

1Relating to or characteristic of humankind.
the human body
the complex nature of the human mind
Example sentencesExamples
- The human body and mind work according to the nature's laws, which are eternal, and immutable.
- The Enlightenment assumes that knowledge is objective, good and accessible to the human mind.
- There, among the babbling minds of the incompetent human race, was my beloved Farrell.
- There are no simple formulae for understanding the human mind and how it develops.
- The human body and mind are more flexible than engines and batteries.
- Similarly, it is irrational to consider undeveloped human bodies as if they were fully developed ones.
- It is this characteristic of the human mind which makes an appeal to force necessary.
- Even in the most passive form, the energy requirements of a human body are considerable.
- To understand my point, you first need to take a moment to consider the human body.
- The next thing we need to understand is how the human race is meant to move forward towards these ideals.
- Galen had worked mainly on Barbary apes, considered closest to the human race.
- We need to have a much richer account of the way in which the human mind and body operate together in the complex activity we know as sex.
- The slide show and the model of a human body facilitated better understanding.
- Our understanding of how the human body was made up was now much more comprehensive.
- This is rather my thoughts and feelings concerning what has happened and what we as a human race need to consider next.
- The human mind cannot tolerate the spectre of waste presented by the possibility of chicanery without detection.
- Understanding this logic, they believed, might unlock our understanding of how the human mind works.
- But I consider the human body to be more like the sensitive engine of a fine sports car.
- This went so far that certain authors considered the human races to be different species.
- It constantly amazes me how the minds of the human race in general work, or cease to work, as the case may be.
Synonyms
anthropoid
1. 1.1 Of or characteristic of people as opposed to God or animals or machines, especially in being susceptible to weaknesses.
  they are only human and therefore mistakes do occur
  the risk of human error
  Example sentencesExamples
  All of which just goes to show that such a venture is extremely vulnerable to vulgar human error.
  A spokeswoman for Yorkshire Electricity said the mistake was down to human error and apologised for the blunder.
  I do allow them to choose characters from fiction as long as that character is human and not animal.
  And they may just demand it rather than trust their life in the air to a pilot who is susceptible to human error.
  Ray played a video game once where one of the characters was more human than animal.
  We must re-examine all that we do and redesign our many and complex systems to make them less vulnerable to human error.
  That is all down to human error, and cannot be ascribed to the machines.
  Whether that problem resulted from human or machine error may never be known.
  It never sends any emails, and it can infect vulnerable machines without any human help.
  Investigating the validity of animal experiments is therefore essential for both human health and animals.
  These nervous fluids often got the blame for human error and weakness.
  Folktales relate the adventures of both animal protagonists and human characters.
  The very nature of the disclosure process makes it prone to human error and vulnerable to attack.
  It's time to look seriously at whether we really need politicians anyway, given their fallibility and human weakness.
  She depicts an almost saintly figure, virtually devoid of human weakness or error.
  Its characters offer human frailties, weaknesses and moral dilemmas that draw us in.
  The mistake Kinsey made was to assume that the human animal is purely animal.
  The accuracy of satellite-guided weapons has exposed human error as the weak link in the chain.
  The fact that we haven't done this yet is attributable to exactly two things: human weakness and corporate profits.
  Personalising the machine is an ongoing human preoccupation.
  Synonyms
  mortal, flesh and blood
  fallible, weak, frail, imperfect, vulnerable, susceptible, erring, error-prone
  physical, bodily, fleshly, carnal, corporal
2. 1.2 Showing the better qualities of humankind, such as kindness.
  the human side of politics is getting stronger
  Example sentencesExamples
  A certain lustiness, a certain appetite for the pleasures of life, is an attractive, human quality.
  Genius, it turns out, is a human quality, drawing on the world and expanding with it.
  It's the one truly redeeming human quality that runs through everything we do.
  His other works of varying scale all have the same unnerving human quality.
  An avuncular African doctor had the time to be reassuring and overflowing with human kindness.
  Medical schools used to put clinical excellence at the top of the agenda, at the expense of human contact and kindness.
  It seems that the left has so demonized him they can no longer see him as having any human qualities.
  I think it's a very natural human quality to want to broaden out your experience.
  Only as the strike nears defeat does his obstinacy acquire a more human, faintly heroic quality.
  It's a pleasant show of human kindness in a time when all we seem to hear about is terrorism and violence.
  Both sides trampled on each other's human qualities, so please don't use these saddening words.
  He said it had given his dad back his faith in human kindness and after all that has happened, I feel that too.
  I'd parallel, as Blatty does, human kindness/forgiveness with the existence of God.
  It is so refreshing to know that there are people who do abide by the codes of human kindness.
  We will be closer to elucidating the basis of quintessentially human qualities like language and selfawareness.
  As a matter of fact, the lack of such human qualities as honesty, kindness, and public spirit are generally felt.
  The filmmaker has identified certain human qualities accurately enough, but makes too little of them.
  There was, and still is, a very human quality to it - good manners, civic pride and little acts of kindness.
  Forget morality, kindness and other human virtues; just admire the size of the wad.
  This was an India I had never known, where human kindness flowed freely and tradesmen greeted me with genuine warmth.
  Synonyms
  compassionate, humane, kind, kindly, kind-hearted, considerate, understanding, sympathetic, tolerant
  approachable, accessible
3. 1.3Zoology Of or belonging to the genus Homo.
  Example sentencesExamples
  High testosterone levels inhibit hair growth in human males and leads to male pattern baldness.
  They were predominantly human viruses that acquired some genes from an avian source.
  Tubules in human mouths are sensitive to cold and are normally covered by enamel.
  There are two different melanins found in human hair, eumelanin and pheomelanin.
  So far nearly all human cases of avian flu have resulted from direct contact with infected birds.
  Well, Gray's Anatomy clearly shows your human proboscis with two nostrils.
  They belonged to our human ancestors, who helped shape the common psychic heritage of us all.
  The bee's eyes, like those of other insects, differ greatly from human eyes.
  At about thirty years of age, the human skeleton is as heavy and strong as it will ever get.
  They were a little too long to belong in a human mouth and far too sharp.
  They say coyotes have in some places become habituated to humans and human environments.
  The voice box structure seen in the Neandertal is identical to current human voice anatomy.
  Other examples include pigments that produce the color in human hair and skin.
  Some have been known to nest in burial caves and may use human bones as nest material.
  This commingling is seen by many reformers as a grotesque reduction to the base material level of human corporeality.
  If a human male made sperm on a similar scale, they would be as long as a blue whale.
  The forepaws resemble slender human hands and make the raccoon unusually dextrous.
  One of the Americans found a few leg bones and freaked out so they told him it was a buffalo, but I could see it was a human femur and tibia.
  The neatly piled human bones belonged to three individuals: a woman, a man and an adolescent aged about fifteen.
  Do you think the platypus has a placenta, as a human mother would have when she is pregnant?

noun ˈhjuːmənˈ(h)jumən

A human being.
Example sentencesExamples
- This is probably one of the great shifts in the story of modern humans but we take it almost for granted.
- At least some people are realising that humans are completely abusing the right we have.
- But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends.
- In fact he probably treats them more as humans than a lot of companies treat their employees.
- How does knowing the ages of the humans involved have any relevance to the main point of the story?
- Living in the world's warmer oceans, it feeds on plankton and is harmless to humans.
- I'm not meant to notice how Gail looks next to other people or how other humans treat her.
- There is every reason to think that you would come across problems cloning humans.
- If the natural environment is naturally subject to change then what about us humans?
- In those days, sailing solo meant a form of isolation that few humans could endure.
- You try to give them good stuff but these people are not fit to be called humans.
- I did not know about the details of the war, or all that humans are capable of doing to other humans.
- In this heroic period, he revealed a kit of talents which few humans have possessed.
- I can feed two humans and two cats for a day and still have change left over from the price of a bunch of flowers.
- Of the hundreds of different species of shark, only a few pose any real threat to humans.
- The disease could not be passed between humans and was easy to cure if caught early enough.
- The tsunami may be an act of nature but humans are complicating the relief effort.
- Those are the things humans most need to function, and we have placed them at the bottom of the list.
- The first sweet treat that humans indulged in was most likely honey from beehives.
Synonyms
person, human being, personage, mortal, member of the human race
man, woman, child
individual, living soul, soul, being
earthling
Latin Homo sapiens
informal, dated body
archaic wight

Derivatives

humanness

noun ˈhjuːmənnɪs

I decided just to try and capture the humanness of the Queen, rather than anything formal.
Example sentencesExamples
- What I really want to see is something spontaneous, showing some thought, showing some reaction, some heart and some humanness.
- Instead my concern over world and community events has me feeling concerned about yourself and others that have expressed a humanness we avid listeners and fans never allow from our heroes and heroines.
- And so I have come to forgive myself, my humanness.
- His modesty, his essential humanness, and his struggle with goodness, makes it easy for audiences to relate to him.

Origin

Late Middle English humaine, from Old French humain(e), from Latin humanus, from homo 'man, human being'. The present spelling became usual in the 18th century; compare with humane.

In the beginning human and humane were the same word. The forms were used interchangeably until the 18th century, when human took over the scientific and general senses relating to people and humane became restricted to the meanings ‘showing compassion’, and ‘without inflicting pain’. Both derive from Latin humanus, from homo ‘man, human being’.

Rhymes

crewman, crewmen, energumen, ichneumon, Newman, numen, Schumann, subhuman, Trueman

Definition of human in US English:

human

adjectiveˈ(h)jumənˈ(h)yo͞omən

1Relating to or characteristic of people or human beings.
the human body
Example sentencesExamples
- There are no simple formulae for understanding the human mind and how it develops.
- We need to have a much richer account of the way in which the human mind and body operate together in the complex activity we know as sex.
- The human body and mind work according to the nature's laws, which are eternal, and immutable.
- Galen had worked mainly on Barbary apes, considered closest to the human race.
- The human body and mind are more flexible than engines and batteries.
- Understanding this logic, they believed, might unlock our understanding of how the human mind works.
- It constantly amazes me how the minds of the human race in general work, or cease to work, as the case may be.
- To understand my point, you first need to take a moment to consider the human body.
- Similarly, it is irrational to consider undeveloped human bodies as if they were fully developed ones.
- The next thing we need to understand is how the human race is meant to move forward towards these ideals.
- Even in the most passive form, the energy requirements of a human body are considerable.
- The Enlightenment assumes that knowledge is objective, good and accessible to the human mind.
- The human mind cannot tolerate the spectre of waste presented by the possibility of chicanery without detection.
- It is this characteristic of the human mind which makes an appeal to force necessary.
- There, among the babbling minds of the incompetent human race, was my beloved Farrell.
- Our understanding of how the human body was made up was now much more comprehensive.
- This is rather my thoughts and feelings concerning what has happened and what we as a human race need to consider next.
- This went so far that certain authors considered the human races to be different species.
- The slide show and the model of a human body facilitated better understanding.
- But I consider the human body to be more like the sensitive engine of a fine sports car.
Synonyms
anthropoid
1. 1.1 Of or characteristic of people as opposed to God or animals or machines, especially in being susceptible to weaknesses.
  they are only human and therefore mistakes do occur
  the risk of human error
  Example sentencesExamples
  Personalising the machine is an ongoing human preoccupation.
  And they may just demand it rather than trust their life in the air to a pilot who is susceptible to human error.
  We must re-examine all that we do and redesign our many and complex systems to make them less vulnerable to human error.
  The fact that we haven't done this yet is attributable to exactly two things: human weakness and corporate profits.
  All of which just goes to show that such a venture is extremely vulnerable to vulgar human error.
  A spokeswoman for Yorkshire Electricity said the mistake was down to human error and apologised for the blunder.
  The accuracy of satellite-guided weapons has exposed human error as the weak link in the chain.
  Its characters offer human frailties, weaknesses and moral dilemmas that draw us in.
  These nervous fluids often got the blame for human error and weakness.
  Whether that problem resulted from human or machine error may never be known.
  The very nature of the disclosure process makes it prone to human error and vulnerable to attack.
  Investigating the validity of animal experiments is therefore essential for both human health and animals.
  That is all down to human error, and cannot be ascribed to the machines.
  It's time to look seriously at whether we really need politicians anyway, given their fallibility and human weakness.
  I do allow them to choose characters from fiction as long as that character is human and not animal.
  Folktales relate the adventures of both animal protagonists and human characters.
  Ray played a video game once where one of the characters was more human than animal.
  It never sends any emails, and it can infect vulnerable machines without any human help.
  She depicts an almost saintly figure, virtually devoid of human weakness or error.
  The mistake Kinsey made was to assume that the human animal is purely animal.
  Synonyms
  mortal, flesh and blood
2. 1.2 Of or characteristic of people's better qualities, such as kindness or sensitivity.
  the human side of politics is getting stronger
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is so refreshing to know that there are people who do abide by the codes of human kindness.
  Forget morality, kindness and other human virtues; just admire the size of the wad.
  It's the one truly redeeming human quality that runs through everything we do.
  We will be closer to elucidating the basis of quintessentially human qualities like language and selfawareness.
  Genius, it turns out, is a human quality, drawing on the world and expanding with it.
  Both sides trampled on each other's human qualities, so please don't use these saddening words.
  This was an India I had never known, where human kindness flowed freely and tradesmen greeted me with genuine warmth.
  As a matter of fact, the lack of such human qualities as honesty, kindness, and public spirit are generally felt.
  It's a pleasant show of human kindness in a time when all we seem to hear about is terrorism and violence.
  There was, and still is, a very human quality to it - good manners, civic pride and little acts of kindness.
  He said it had given his dad back his faith in human kindness and after all that has happened, I feel that too.
  Only as the strike nears defeat does his obstinacy acquire a more human, faintly heroic quality.
  His other works of varying scale all have the same unnerving human quality.
  A certain lustiness, a certain appetite for the pleasures of life, is an attractive, human quality.
  An avuncular African doctor had the time to be reassuring and overflowing with human kindness.
  I'd parallel, as Blatty does, human kindness/forgiveness with the existence of God.
  Medical schools used to put clinical excellence at the top of the agenda, at the expense of human contact and kindness.
  The filmmaker has identified certain human qualities accurately enough, but makes too little of them.
  It seems that the left has so demonized him they can no longer see him as having any human qualities.
  I think it's a very natural human quality to want to broaden out your experience.
  Synonyms
  compassionate, humane, kind, kindly, kind-hearted, considerate, understanding, sympathetic, tolerant
3. 1.3Zoology Of or belonging to the genus Homo.
  Example sentencesExamples
  They were a little too long to belong in a human mouth and far too sharp.
  They were predominantly human viruses that acquired some genes from an avian source.
  Well, Gray's Anatomy clearly shows your human proboscis with two nostrils.
  This commingling is seen by many reformers as a grotesque reduction to the base material level of human corporeality.
  High testosterone levels inhibit hair growth in human males and leads to male pattern baldness.
  The forepaws resemble slender human hands and make the raccoon unusually dextrous.
  At about thirty years of age, the human skeleton is as heavy and strong as it will ever get.
  If a human male made sperm on a similar scale, they would be as long as a blue whale.
  Some have been known to nest in burial caves and may use human bones as nest material.
  They belonged to our human ancestors, who helped shape the common psychic heritage of us all.
  Do you think the platypus has a placenta, as a human mother would have when she is pregnant?
  There are two different melanins found in human hair, eumelanin and pheomelanin.
  Other examples include pigments that produce the color in human hair and skin.
  Tubules in human mouths are sensitive to cold and are normally covered by enamel.
  They say coyotes have in some places become habituated to humans and human environments.
  The neatly piled human bones belonged to three individuals: a woman, a man and an adolescent aged about fifteen.
  So far nearly all human cases of avian flu have resulted from direct contact with infected birds.
  The bee's eyes, like those of other insects, differ greatly from human eyes.
  One of the Americans found a few leg bones and freaked out so they told him it was a buffalo, but I could see it was a human femur and tibia.
  The voice box structure seen in the Neandertal is identical to current human voice anatomy.

nounˈ(h)jumənˈ(h)yo͞omən

A human being, especially a person as distinguished from an animal or (in science fiction) an alien.
Example sentencesExamples
- At least some people are realising that humans are completely abusing the right we have.
- In this heroic period, he revealed a kit of talents which few humans have possessed.
- In those days, sailing solo meant a form of isolation that few humans could endure.
- I'm not meant to notice how Gail looks next to other people or how other humans treat her.
- The first sweet treat that humans indulged in was most likely honey from beehives.
- I can feed two humans and two cats for a day and still have change left over from the price of a bunch of flowers.
- This is probably one of the great shifts in the story of modern humans but we take it almost for granted.
- If the natural environment is naturally subject to change then what about us humans?
- The tsunami may be an act of nature but humans are complicating the relief effort.
- The disease could not be passed between humans and was easy to cure if caught early enough.
- I did not know about the details of the war, or all that humans are capable of doing to other humans.
- But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends.
- Those are the things humans most need to function, and we have placed them at the bottom of the list.
- Living in the world's warmer oceans, it feeds on plankton and is harmless to humans.
- You try to give them good stuff but these people are not fit to be called humans.
- Of the hundreds of different species of shark, only a few pose any real threat to humans.
- How does knowing the ages of the humans involved have any relevance to the main point of the story?
- There is every reason to think that you would come across problems cloning humans.
- In fact he probably treats them more as humans than a lot of companies treat their employees.
Synonyms
person, human being, personage, mortal, member of the human race

Usage

See humanitarian

Origin

Late Middle English humaine, from Old French humain(e), from Latin humanus, from homo ‘man, human being’. The present spelling became usual in the 18th century; compare with humane.

单词	human
释义	Definition of human in English: human adjective ˈhjuːmənˈ(h)jumən 1Relating to or characteristic of humankind. the human body the complex nature of the human mind Example sentencesExamples The human body and mind work according to the nature's laws, which are eternal, and immutable. The Enlightenment assumes that knowledge is objective, good and accessible to the human mind. There, among the babbling minds of the incompetent human race, was my beloved Farrell. There are no simple formulae for understanding the human mind and how it develops. The human body and mind are more flexible than engines and batteries. Similarly, it is irrational to consider undeveloped human bodies as if they were fully developed ones. It is this characteristic of the human mind which makes an appeal to force necessary. Even in the most passive form, the energy requirements of a human body are considerable. To understand my point, you first need to take a moment to consider the human body. The next thing we need to understand is how the human race is meant to move forward towards these ideals. Galen had worked mainly on Barbary apes, considered closest to the human race. We need to have a much richer account of the way in which the human mind and body operate together in the complex activity we know as sex. The slide show and the model of a human body facilitated better understanding. Our understanding of how the human body was made up was now much more comprehensive. This is rather my thoughts and feelings concerning what has happened and what we as a human race need to consider next. The human mind cannot tolerate the spectre of waste presented by the possibility of chicanery without detection. Understanding this logic, they believed, might unlock our understanding of how the human mind works. But I consider the human body to be more like the sensitive engine of a fine sports car. This went so far that certain authors considered the human races to be different species. It constantly amazes me how the minds of the human race in general work, or cease to work, as the case may be. Synonyms anthropoid 1.1 Of or characteristic of people as opposed to God or animals or machines, especially in being susceptible to weaknesses. they are only human and therefore mistakes do occur the risk of human error Example sentencesExamples All of which just goes to show that such a venture is extremely vulnerable to vulgar human error. A spokeswoman for Yorkshire Electricity said the mistake was down to human error and apologised for the blunder. I do allow them to choose characters from fiction as long as that character is human and not animal. And they may just demand it rather than trust their life in the air to a pilot who is susceptible to human error. Ray played a video game once where one of the characters was more human than animal. We must re-examine all that we do and redesign our many and complex systems to make them less vulnerable to human error. That is all down to human error, and cannot be ascribed to the machines. Whether that problem resulted from human or machine error may never be known. It never sends any emails, and it can infect vulnerable machines without any human help. Investigating the validity of animal experiments is therefore essential for both human health and animals. These nervous fluids often got the blame for human error and weakness. Folktales relate the adventures of both animal protagonists and human characters. The very nature of the disclosure process makes it prone to human error and vulnerable to attack. It's time to look seriously at whether we really need politicians anyway, given their fallibility and human weakness. She depicts an almost saintly figure, virtually devoid of human weakness or error. Its characters offer human frailties, weaknesses and moral dilemmas that draw us in. The mistake Kinsey made was to assume that the human animal is purely animal. The accuracy of satellite-guided weapons has exposed human error as the weak link in the chain. The fact that we haven't done this yet is attributable to exactly two things: human weakness and corporate profits. Personalising the machine is an ongoing human preoccupation. Synonyms mortal, flesh and blood fallible, weak, frail, imperfect, vulnerable, susceptible, erring, error-prone physical, bodily, fleshly, carnal, corporal 1.2 Showing the better qualities of humankind, such as kindness. the human side of politics is getting stronger Example sentencesExamples A certain lustiness, a certain appetite for the pleasures of life, is an attractive, human quality. Genius, it turns out, is a human quality, drawing on the world and expanding with it. It's the one truly redeeming human quality that runs through everything we do. His other works of varying scale all have the same unnerving human quality. An avuncular African doctor had the time to be reassuring and overflowing with human kindness. Medical schools used to put clinical excellence at the top of the agenda, at the expense of human contact and kindness. It seems that the left has so demonized him they can no longer see him as having any human qualities. I think it's a very natural human quality to want to broaden out your experience. Only as the strike nears defeat does his obstinacy acquire a more human, faintly heroic quality. It's a pleasant show of human kindness in a time when all we seem to hear about is terrorism and violence. Both sides trampled on each other's human qualities, so please don't use these saddening words. He said it had given his dad back his faith in human kindness and after all that has happened, I feel that too. I'd parallel, as Blatty does, human kindness/forgiveness with the existence of God. It is so refreshing to know that there are people who do abide by the codes of human kindness. We will be closer to elucidating the basis of quintessentially human qualities like language and selfawareness. As a matter of fact, the lack of such human qualities as honesty, kindness, and public spirit are generally felt. The filmmaker has identified certain human qualities accurately enough, but makes too little of them. There was, and still is, a very human quality to it - good manners, civic pride and little acts of kindness. Forget morality, kindness and other human virtues; just admire the size of the wad. This was an India I had never known, where human kindness flowed freely and tradesmen greeted me with genuine warmth. Synonyms compassionate, humane, kind, kindly, kind-hearted, considerate, understanding, sympathetic, tolerant approachable, accessible 1.3Zoology Of or belonging to the genus Homo. Example sentencesExamples High testosterone levels inhibit hair growth in human males and leads to male pattern baldness. They were predominantly human viruses that acquired some genes from an avian source. Tubules in human mouths are sensitive to cold and are normally covered by enamel. There are two different melanins found in human hair, eumelanin and pheomelanin. So far nearly all human cases of avian flu have resulted from direct contact with infected birds. Well, Gray's Anatomy clearly shows your human proboscis with two nostrils. They belonged to our human ancestors, who helped shape the common psychic heritage of us all. The bee's eyes, like those of other insects, differ greatly from human eyes. At about thirty years of age, the human skeleton is as heavy and strong as it will ever get. They were a little too long to belong in a human mouth and far too sharp. They say coyotes have in some places become habituated to humans and human environments. The voice box structure seen in the Neandertal is identical to current human voice anatomy. Other examples include pigments that produce the color in human hair and skin. Some have been known to nest in burial caves and may use human bones as nest material. This commingling is seen by many reformers as a grotesque reduction to the base material level of human corporeality. If a human male made sperm on a similar scale, they would be as long as a blue whale. The forepaws resemble slender human hands and make the raccoon unusually dextrous. One of the Americans found a few leg bones and freaked out so they told him it was a buffalo, but I could see it was a human femur and tibia. The neatly piled human bones belonged to three individuals: a woman, a man and an adolescent aged about fifteen. Do you think the platypus has a placenta, as a human mother would have when she is pregnant? noun ˈhjuːmənˈ(h)jumən A human being. Example sentencesExamples This is probably one of the great shifts in the story of modern humans but we take it almost for granted. At least some people are realising that humans are completely abusing the right we have. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. In fact he probably treats them more as humans than a lot of companies treat their employees. How does knowing the ages of the humans involved have any relevance to the main point of the story? Living in the world's warmer oceans, it feeds on plankton and is harmless to humans. I'm not meant to notice how Gail looks next to other people or how other humans treat her. There is every reason to think that you would come across problems cloning humans. If the natural environment is naturally subject to change then what about us humans? In those days, sailing solo meant a form of isolation that few humans could endure. You try to give them good stuff but these people are not fit to be called humans. I did not know about the details of the war, or all that humans are capable of doing to other humans. In this heroic period, he revealed a kit of talents which few humans have possessed. I can feed two humans and two cats for a day and still have change left over from the price of a bunch of flowers. Of the hundreds of different species of shark, only a few pose any real threat to humans. The disease could not be passed between humans and was easy to cure if caught early enough. The tsunami may be an act of nature but humans are complicating the relief effort. Those are the things humans most need to function, and we have placed them at the bottom of the list. The first sweet treat that humans indulged in was most likely honey from beehives. Synonyms person, human being, personage, mortal, member of the human race man, woman, child individual, living soul, soul, being earthling Latin Homo sapiens informal, dated body archaic wight Derivatives humanness noun ˈhjuːmənnɪs I decided just to try and capture the humanness of the Queen, rather than anything formal. Example sentencesExamples What I really want to see is something spontaneous, showing some thought, showing some reaction, some heart and some humanness. Instead my concern over world and community events has me feeling concerned about yourself and others that have expressed a humanness we avid listeners and fans never allow from our heroes and heroines. And so I have come to forgive myself, my humanness. His modesty, his essential humanness, and his struggle with goodness, makes it easy for audiences to relate to him. Origin Late Middle English humaine, from Old French humain(e), from Latin humanus, from homo 'man, human being'. The present spelling became usual in the 18th century; compare with humane. In the beginning human and humane were the same word. The forms were used interchangeably until the 18th century, when human took over the scientific and general senses relating to people and humane became restricted to the meanings ‘showing compassion’, and ‘without inflicting pain’. Both derive from Latin humanus, from homo ‘man, human being’. Rhymes crewman, crewmen, energumen, ichneumon, Newman, numen, Schumann, subhuman, Trueman Definition of human in US English: human adjectiveˈ(h)jumənˈ(h)yo͞omən 1Relating to or characteristic of people or human beings. the human body Example sentencesExamples There are no simple formulae for understanding the human mind and how it develops. We need to have a much richer account of the way in which the human mind and body operate together in the complex activity we know as sex. The human body and mind work according to the nature's laws, which are eternal, and immutable. Galen had worked mainly on Barbary apes, considered closest to the human race. The human body and mind are more flexible than engines and batteries. Understanding this logic, they believed, might unlock our understanding of how the human mind works. It constantly amazes me how the minds of the human race in general work, or cease to work, as the case may be. To understand my point, you first need to take a moment to consider the human body. Similarly, it is irrational to consider undeveloped human bodies as if they were fully developed ones. The next thing we need to understand is how the human race is meant to move forward towards these ideals. Even in the most passive form, the energy requirements of a human body are considerable. The Enlightenment assumes that knowledge is objective, good and accessible to the human mind. The human mind cannot tolerate the spectre of waste presented by the possibility of chicanery without detection. It is this characteristic of the human mind which makes an appeal to force necessary. There, among the babbling minds of the incompetent human race, was my beloved Farrell. Our understanding of how the human body was made up was now much more comprehensive. This is rather my thoughts and feelings concerning what has happened and what we as a human race need to consider next. This went so far that certain authors considered the human races to be different species. The slide show and the model of a human body facilitated better understanding. But I consider the human body to be more like the sensitive engine of a fine sports car. Synonyms anthropoid 1.1 Of or characteristic of people as opposed to God or animals or machines, especially in being susceptible to weaknesses. they are only human and therefore mistakes do occur the risk of human error Example sentencesExamples Personalising the machine is an ongoing human preoccupation. And they may just demand it rather than trust their life in the air to a pilot who is susceptible to human error. We must re-examine all that we do and redesign our many and complex systems to make them less vulnerable to human error. The fact that we haven't done this yet is attributable to exactly two things: human weakness and corporate profits. All of which just goes to show that such a venture is extremely vulnerable to vulgar human error. A spokeswoman for Yorkshire Electricity said the mistake was down to human error and apologised for the blunder. The accuracy of satellite-guided weapons has exposed human error as the weak link in the chain. Its characters offer human frailties, weaknesses and moral dilemmas that draw us in. These nervous fluids often got the blame for human error and weakness. Whether that problem resulted from human or machine error may never be known. The very nature of the disclosure process makes it prone to human error and vulnerable to attack. Investigating the validity of animal experiments is therefore essential for both human health and animals. That is all down to human error, and cannot be ascribed to the machines. It's time to look seriously at whether we really need politicians anyway, given their fallibility and human weakness. I do allow them to choose characters from fiction as long as that character is human and not animal. Folktales relate the adventures of both animal protagonists and human characters. Ray played a video game once where one of the characters was more human than animal. It never sends any emails, and it can infect vulnerable machines without any human help. She depicts an almost saintly figure, virtually devoid of human weakness or error. The mistake Kinsey made was to assume that the human animal is purely animal. Synonyms mortal, flesh and blood 1.2 Of or characteristic of people's better qualities, such as kindness or sensitivity. the human side of politics is getting stronger Example sentencesExamples It is so refreshing to know that there are people who do abide by the codes of human kindness. Forget morality, kindness and other human virtues; just admire the size of the wad. It's the one truly redeeming human quality that runs through everything we do. We will be closer to elucidating the basis of quintessentially human qualities like language and selfawareness. Genius, it turns out, is a human quality, drawing on the world and expanding with it. Both sides trampled on each other's human qualities, so please don't use these saddening words. This was an India I had never known, where human kindness flowed freely and tradesmen greeted me with genuine warmth. As a matter of fact, the lack of such human qualities as honesty, kindness, and public spirit are generally felt. It's a pleasant show of human kindness in a time when all we seem to hear about is terrorism and violence. There was, and still is, a very human quality to it - good manners, civic pride and little acts of kindness. He said it had given his dad back his faith in human kindness and after all that has happened, I feel that too. Only as the strike nears defeat does his obstinacy acquire a more human, faintly heroic quality. His other works of varying scale all have the same unnerving human quality. A certain lustiness, a certain appetite for the pleasures of life, is an attractive, human quality. An avuncular African doctor had the time to be reassuring and overflowing with human kindness. I'd parallel, as Blatty does, human kindness/forgiveness with the existence of God. Medical schools used to put clinical excellence at the top of the agenda, at the expense of human contact and kindness. The filmmaker has identified certain human qualities accurately enough, but makes too little of them. It seems that the left has so demonized him they can no longer see him as having any human qualities. I think it's a very natural human quality to want to broaden out your experience. Synonyms compassionate, humane, kind, kindly, kind-hearted, considerate, understanding, sympathetic, tolerant 1.3Zoology Of or belonging to the genus Homo. Example sentencesExamples They were a little too long to belong in a human mouth and far too sharp. They were predominantly human viruses that acquired some genes from an avian source. Well, Gray's Anatomy clearly shows your human proboscis with two nostrils. This commingling is seen by many reformers as a grotesque reduction to the base material level of human corporeality. High testosterone levels inhibit hair growth in human males and leads to male pattern baldness. The forepaws resemble slender human hands and make the raccoon unusually dextrous. At about thirty years of age, the human skeleton is as heavy and strong as it will ever get. If a human male made sperm on a similar scale, they would be as long as a blue whale. Some have been known to nest in burial caves and may use human bones as nest material. They belonged to our human ancestors, who helped shape the common psychic heritage of us all. Do you think the platypus has a placenta, as a human mother would have when she is pregnant? There are two different melanins found in human hair, eumelanin and pheomelanin. Other examples include pigments that produce the color in human hair and skin. Tubules in human mouths are sensitive to cold and are normally covered by enamel. They say coyotes have in some places become habituated to humans and human environments. The neatly piled human bones belonged to three individuals: a woman, a man and an adolescent aged about fifteen. So far nearly all human cases of avian flu have resulted from direct contact with infected birds. The bee's eyes, like those of other insects, differ greatly from human eyes. One of the Americans found a few leg bones and freaked out so they told him it was a buffalo, but I could see it was a human femur and tibia. The voice box structure seen in the Neandertal is identical to current human voice anatomy. nounˈ(h)jumənˈ(h)yo͞omən A human being, especially a person as distinguished from an animal or (in science fiction) an alien. Example sentencesExamples At least some people are realising that humans are completely abusing the right we have. In this heroic period, he revealed a kit of talents which few humans have possessed. In those days, sailing solo meant a form of isolation that few humans could endure. I'm not meant to notice how Gail looks next to other people or how other humans treat her. The first sweet treat that humans indulged in was most likely honey from beehives. I can feed two humans and two cats for a day and still have change left over from the price of a bunch of flowers. This is probably one of the great shifts in the story of modern humans but we take it almost for granted. If the natural environment is naturally subject to change then what about us humans? The tsunami may be an act of nature but humans are complicating the relief effort. The disease could not be passed between humans and was easy to cure if caught early enough. I did not know about the details of the war, or all that humans are capable of doing to other humans. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Those are the things humans most need to function, and we have placed them at the bottom of the list. Living in the world's warmer oceans, it feeds on plankton and is harmless to humans. You try to give them good stuff but these people are not fit to be called humans. Of the hundreds of different species of shark, only a few pose any real threat to humans. How does knowing the ages of the humans involved have any relevance to the main point of the story? There is every reason to think that you would come across problems cloning humans. In fact he probably treats them more as humans than a lot of companies treat their employees. Synonyms person, human being, personage, mortal, member of the human race Usage See humanitarian Origin Late Middle English humaine, from Old French humain(e), from Latin humanus, from homo ‘man, human being’. The present spelling became usual in the 18th century; compare with humane.
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