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Definition of subhuman in English: subhumanadjective sʌbˈhjuːmənˌsəbˈ(h)jumən 1Of a lower order of being than humans. Example sentencesExamples - I would be the first to agree that these liberals have a right to try and retrieve their relatively accurate, highly tarnished satanic and subhuman image.
- Thus, like the pagan of old, the materialist ends up subjecting man to the subhuman.
- I've been in many homes where the cleaning help is treated as subhuman - ordered around, made to eat separately, severely criticized - by the same people arguing adamantly in favor of civil rights.
- Projecting a subhuman image of the opponent in order to legitimize violence and human rights violations is a commonly used psychological tool.
Synonyms carnal, fleshly, bodily, physical, sensual - 1.1Zoology (of a primate) closely related to humans.
Example sentencesExamples - Instead of a single factor with chemoattractant activity as found with subhuman primate cells and guinea pig cells, two factors were identified that selectively attracted PMNs but not mononuclear cells.
- Each of the traditions distinguishes between human, as against subhuman life, behavior and animal.
- First, there is no evidence from anthropology or from studies of subhuman primates that a ‘primal horde’ dominated by a single male ever existed.
- 1.2 Not worthy of a human being; debased or depraved.
he regards all PR people as subhuman Example sentencesExamples - Though treated as subhuman, peasants were of course neither deaf, dumb, nor incapable of acting on their perceived interests.
- He's far from the only general partner to treat limited partners as something subhuman.
- They are the victims of appalling brutality, singled out by the Nazis as subhuman and beaten mercilessly.
- In rural areas, particularly in the southern states, conditions were subhuman.
- Throughout history, whenever any group has been labelled subhuman, serious abuse has followed.
Synonyms savage, brutish, brutal, barbarous, barbaric, cruel, vicious, violent, inhuman
noun sʌbˈhjuːmənˌsəbˈ(h)jumən A subhuman creature or person. Example sentencesExamples - Advocates of out-and-out conquest argued that Indians were either subhumans or heathens and were therefore incapable of having dominion over themselves or over property.
- This terrorism reduced Africans to subhumans whose resources and labor were used to develop foreign countries, which terrorized the African people.
- Attempting to contract with subhumans has predictable consequences, consequences that correspond exactly with attempts to contract with two-legged subhumans.
- With the aid of this conjunctio oppositorum, one superhuman, the other subhuman, Prospero restores his realm's people to their ‘proper selves’.
- They warn of a ‘self-fulfilling prophesy’: If men are told over and over that they are not only brutal subhumans in general but also hostile to women in particular, they are likely to say, ‘So be it.’
- British cartoons routinely depicted the Irish as anarchists, pigs, monkeys, apes, monsters, bog-trotters, and subhumans.
- Carried far enough, the person in power sees those under control as beasts or subhumans.
Rhymes crewman, crewmen, energumen, human, ichneumon, Newman, numen, Schumann, Trueman Definition of subhuman in US English: subhumanadjectiveˌsəbˈ(h)yo͞omənˌsəbˈ(h)jumən 1Of a lower order of being than the human. Example sentencesExamples - Projecting a subhuman image of the opponent in order to legitimize violence and human rights violations is a commonly used psychological tool.
- I would be the first to agree that these liberals have a right to try and retrieve their relatively accurate, highly tarnished satanic and subhuman image.
- I've been in many homes where the cleaning help is treated as subhuman - ordered around, made to eat separately, severely criticized - by the same people arguing adamantly in favor of civil rights.
- Thus, like the pagan of old, the materialist ends up subjecting man to the subhuman.
Synonyms carnal, fleshly, bodily, physical, sensual - 1.1Zoology (of a primate) closely related to humans.
Example sentencesExamples - Each of the traditions distinguishes between human, as against subhuman life, behavior and animal.
- First, there is no evidence from anthropology or from studies of subhuman primates that a ‘primal horde’ dominated by a single male ever existed.
- Instead of a single factor with chemoattractant activity as found with subhuman primate cells and guinea pig cells, two factors were identified that selectively attracted PMNs but not mononuclear cells.
- 1.2 (of people or their behavior) not worthy of a human being; debased or depraved.
he regards all PR people as subhuman Example sentencesExamples - Though treated as subhuman, peasants were of course neither deaf, dumb, nor incapable of acting on their perceived interests.
- They are the victims of appalling brutality, singled out by the Nazis as subhuman and beaten mercilessly.
- In rural areas, particularly in the southern states, conditions were subhuman.
- He's far from the only general partner to treat limited partners as something subhuman.
- Throughout history, whenever any group has been labelled subhuman, serious abuse has followed.
Synonyms savage, brutish, brutal, barbarous, barbaric, cruel, vicious, violent, inhuman
nounˌsəbˈ(h)yo͞omənˌsəbˈ(h)jumən A subhuman creature or person. Example sentencesExamples - This terrorism reduced Africans to subhumans whose resources and labor were used to develop foreign countries, which terrorized the African people.
- Carried far enough, the person in power sees those under control as beasts or subhumans.
- Attempting to contract with subhumans has predictable consequences, consequences that correspond exactly with attempts to contract with two-legged subhumans.
- Advocates of out-and-out conquest argued that Indians were either subhumans or heathens and were therefore incapable of having dominion over themselves or over property.
- British cartoons routinely depicted the Irish as anarchists, pigs, monkeys, apes, monsters, bog-trotters, and subhumans.
- They warn of a ‘self-fulfilling prophesy’: If men are told over and over that they are not only brutal subhumans in general but also hostile to women in particular, they are likely to say, ‘So be it.’
- With the aid of this conjunctio oppositorum, one superhuman, the other subhuman, Prospero restores his realm's people to their ‘proper selves’.
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