Human
['hjuːmən] or ['hjumən]
Definition
(adj.) having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings; 'human beings'; 'the human body'; 'human kindness'; 'human frailty' .
(adj.) characteristic of humanity; 'human nature' .
(adj.) relating to a person; 'the experiment was conducted on 6 monkeys and 2 human subjects' .
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Definition
(a.) Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human sacrifices.
(n.) A human being.
Typist: Psyche
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Man's, of man.[2]. Common to mankind.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Ethnical, cosmical, anthropological, rational, civilized
ANT:Inhuman, beastly, irrational
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Definition
adj. belonging or pertaining to man or mankind: having the qualities of a man.—n. (coll.) a human being.—n. Hū′mankind the human species.—adv. Hū′manly.
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Examples
- The human watchdogs must be philosophers or lovers of learning which will make them gentle. Plato. The Republic.
- O child, the human heart _can_ suffer! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Until Edison made his wonderful invention in 1877, the human race was entirely without means for preserving or passing on to posterity its own linguistic utterances or any other vocal sound. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It would be difficult to find a human being less likely to arouse affection. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Somewhat as a house is composed of a group of bricks, or a sand heap of grains of sand, the human body is composed of small divisions called cells. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Human nature appears to be just the same, all over the world. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Winifred did not notice human beings unless they were like herself, playful and slightly mocking. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I love Miss Fanshawe far more than de Hamal loves any human being, and would care for and guard her better than he. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The most obvious conclusion from this is, that human nature is in general pusillanimous; since upon the sudden appearance of any object. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- He said, I have been through nearly every form of trial that human flesh is heir to, and I find that _there is nothing in life to fear but sin_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Consols; for so it was that Becky felt the Vanity of human affairs, and it was in those securities that she would have liked to cast anchor. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Later on there was more grace and less coarseness in the human representations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There is no proof that this unbrotherly, unhumorous egotist was ever sincerely loved by any human being. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nothing in human shape could have destroyed that fair child. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- We have elaborate governmental mechanisms--like the tariff, for example, which we go on making more scientific year in, year out--having long since lost sight of their human purpose. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There is but one race of true and immortal humans on Barsoom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Sola seemed puzzled herself, as though such strange actions on the part of two humans were quite beyond her, as indeed they were, poor child. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- You will see it often in humans. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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