Unhuman

adj, noun, verb

adj, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who is not human; nonhuman.

    "The book argues that leftists don’t deserve the status of human beings — that they are, as the title says, unhumans — and that they are waging a shadow war against all that is good and decent, which will end in apocalyptic slaughter if they are not stopped."

Verb
  1. 1
    To make less human or removing human qualities
Adjective
  1. 1
    Not resembling or having the qualities of a human being.
Adjective
  1. 1
    divested of human qualities or attributes wordnet

Synonyms

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animalanthropophagousarcaneatrociousbarbaricbarbarous

Antonyms

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human

Example

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"The book argues that leftists don’t deserve the status of human beings — that they are, as the title says, unhumans — and that they are waging a shadow war against all that is good and decent, which will end in apocalyptic slaughter if they are not stopped."

Etymology

From un- + human.

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