Inhuman
[ɪn'hjuːmən] or [ɪn'hjʊmən]
Definition
(adj.) belonging to or resembling something nonhuman; 'something dark and inhuman in form'; 'a babel of inhuman noises' .
Edited by Elsie--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people.
(a.) Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment.
Editor: Olaf
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Barbarous, brutal, SAVAGE, cruel, ruthless, pitiless, remorseless, merciless, fell, ferocious, unfeeling.
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Definition
adj. barbarous: cruel: unfeeling.—n. Inhuman′ity the state of being inhuman: barbarity: cruelty.—adv. Inhū′manly.
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Examples
- But genuine politics is not an inhuman task. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And he looked down in surprise, hearing the almost inhuman chuckle of the child at his side. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- When I exclaimed that this appeared rather inhuman, he [the informant] answered, 'Why, what can be done? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I was some little way off, so that I could not make out the features, but there was something unnatural and inhuman about the face. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Terrible and inhuman were his examinations into every detail; there was no privacy he would spare, no old sentiment but he would turn it over. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But Birkin rowed evenly and unswerving, with an inhuman inevitability. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I believe in something inhuman, of which love is only a little part. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Whatever life might be, it could not take away death, the inhuman transcendent death. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Human or inhuman mattered nothing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If ever an oppressed race existed, it is this one we see fettered around us under the inhuman tyranny of the Ottoman Empire. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Voices were still calling in inhuman agitation through the dark-grey air, spectres were running along the darkness between the train. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was a gladness above all, that this remained to look forward to, the pure inhuman otherness of death. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was simply inhuman of Pragg to go off now, Mrs. Trenor declared, as her friend seated herself at the desk. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Some of our best-intentioned political schemes, like reform colonies and scientific jails, turn out to be inhuman tyrannies just because our imagination does not penetrate the sociological label. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I also had engaged myself not to desert them; it appeared to me inhuman to ground any infraction of my word on theirs. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- There was something inhuman even in their humanitarian zeal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They put the stamp of their genius on certain inhuman practices, and of course it has been the part of the academic mind to imitate them ever since. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There was a new world, a new order, strict, terrible, inhuman, but satisfying in its very destructiveness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was this inhuman principle in the mechanism he wanted to construct that inspired Gerald with an almost religious exaltation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He sat slack and motionless in the boat, his head blunt and blind like a seal's, his whole appearance inhuman, unknowing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What inhuman rogues there are in the world! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- To her mind, he was a pure, inhuman, almost superhuman instrument. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Certainly; it would indeed be very impertinent and inhuman in me to trouble you with any inquisitiveness of mine. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It was the daughters of men coming back to the sons of God, the strange inhuman sons of God who are in the beginning. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Oh, the accursed cruelty of these inhuman persecutors! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Turning round, he saw his father's eyes wide open, strained and rolling in a frenzy of inhuman struggling. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She felt she would swoon, die, under the vibrating, inhuman tension of his arms and his body--she would pass away. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I beg for mercy--I cannot bear this any longer--it is inhuman to go further with this! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Something in him, inhuman and unmitigated, disturbed her, and shook her out of her ordinary self. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I am not of an inhuman disposition, sir. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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