Dictionary Definition
inhuman adj
1 without compunction or human feeling; "in cold
blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" [syn:
cold, cold-blooded,
insensate]
2 belonging to or resembling something nonhuman;
"something dark and inhuman in form"; "a babel of inhuman
noises"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Of or pertaining to inhumanity and the indifferently cruel, sadistic or barbaric behavior it brings.
Antonyms
Translations
of or pertaining to inhumanity
- Czech: nelidský
- German: unmenschlich
- Swedish: omänsklig
Extensive Definition
Human may refer to
- any member of the Homo genus
(since ca. 2.5 million years)
- Human taxonomy
- Homo
sapiens (modern humans), the only surviving species of Homo.
- archaic Homo sapiens (since ca. 200,000 years)
- Homo sapiens idaltu (ca. 160,000 years ago)
- Homo sapiens sapiens palestinus (Cro-Magnon, since ca. 40,000 years ago)
- Human evolution
- List of human evolution fossils
- Human appearance
- Human behavior
- Human condition
- The human race in a variety of fictional contexts:
- Human (Babylon 5), the human race in the fictional world of Babylon 5
- Human (Dragon Ball), the human race in the fictional world of the three Dragon Ball series
- Human (Dungeons & Dragons), the human race in the fictional world of Dungeons & Dragons
- Humans (Noon Universe), the human race in the novels of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
- Human (Star Trek), the human race in the fictional world of Star Trek
- Human (Jak and Daxter), the human race in the fictional world of Jak and Daxter
- Human (Star Wars), the human race in the fictional world of Star Wars
- Humans (novel), the second book in Robert J. Sawyer's trilogy The Neanderthal Parallax
- Humans'' (1992 novel), a novel by Donald E. Westlake
In music:
- Human (band), a death metal/grindcore band from New Zealand
- "Human" (song), a song by the musical group Human League
- Humans (band), a new wave band from Santa Cruz, California
- "Human", a song by the Danish Synth-Pop band Carpark North
- "Human" (Skye Sweetnam song), a 2007 single from Skye Sweetnam
- Human, a song by The Music from their 2003 album The Music (album)
- Human (album), an album by the musical group Death
- Human (Rod Stewart album), a 2001 album by Rod Stewart.
- Human (Gary Numan album), a 1995 album by Gary Numan and Michael R. Smith
- Human Being (album), an album by the musician Seal
- The Human Race (song), a song by Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman
- "Minus Human", a song by the heavy metal band Metallica and Michael Kamen
- Several record labels:
Others:
- Human, Ukraine, a town in southern Ukraine
- Human Head Studios, an American computer and video game company
- Human Entertainment, a former Japanese computer and video game company
- The Humans, a computer puzzle game by GameTek
- Humans, a Season 2 Episode of Zoboomafoo
See also
inhuman in French: Humain
inhuman in Latvian: Cilvēks (nozīmju
atdalīšana)
inhuman in Polish: Człowiek
(ujednoznacznienie)
inhuman in Chinese: 人 (消歧義)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Draconian, Tartarean, animal, anthropophagous,
atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, callous, cannibalistic,
cold-blooded, cruel,
cruel-hearted, demoniac, demoniacal, demonic, demonish, demonlike, devil-like,
devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, ghoulish, heartless, hellish, implacable, infernal, inhumane, insensitive, kill-crazy,
malicious, malign, malignant, merciless, murderous, noncivilized, ogreish, pitiless, relentless, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, severe, sharkish, slavering, subhuman, tameless, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, uncompassionate,
unfeeling, ungentle, unhuman, unkind, unkindly, unrelenting, unsympathetic, untamed, vicious, wild, wolfish