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单词 subhuman
释义 sub·human
I. \“+\ adjective
Etymology: sub- + human
: less than human: as
 a. : failing to attain the level (as of morality or intelligence) associated with normal human beings
  < a subhuman child >
  < treating the natives as subhuman >
 b. : unsuitable to or unfit for human beings
  < subhuman conditions of life >
  < a subhuman spectacle >
 c. : approaching that normal to man
  < a dog with subhuman intelligence >
 d. : of, relating to, or belonging to an infrahuman group
  < the subhuman primates >
  < the army ant … presents the most complex instance of organized mass behavior … in any subhuman animal — T.C.Schneirla & Gerard Piel >
II. noun
: a subhuman individual; especially : a person so deficient in ordinary human characteristics as to seem a member of a different species
 < such moronic subhumansTime >
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