单词 | inhuman |
释义 | inhuman/ɪnˈhjuːmən /adjective 1Lacking human qualities of compassion and mercy; cruel and barbaric: the inhuman treatment meted out to political prisoners...
Synonyms cruel, harsh, inhumane, brutal, callous, sadistic, severe, savage, vicious, barbaric, barbarous; bestial, monstrous, fiendish, diabolical, evil, wicked, heinous; merciless, ruthless, pitiless, unpitying, remorseless, cold-blooded, heartless, hard-hearted, stone-hearted, with a heart of stone, unforgiving; unkind, unkindly, inconsiderate, unsympathetic, unfeeling, uncaring informal hard-boiled, hard-nosed British informal, dated beastly archaic dastardly, sanguinary rare egregious, flagitious 2Not human in nature or character: the inhuman scale of the dinosaurs...
Synonyms non-human, non-mortal, monstrous, devilish, demonic, demoniac, ghostly; subhuman, animal; strange, odd, bizarre, unearthly Derivativesinhumanly
OriginLate Middle English (originally as inhumane): from Latin inhumanus, from in- 'not' + humanus (see human). |
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