Unhumanly

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In an unhuman manner.

    "MacDonald was tall; some trick of the night made him appear almost unhumanly tall as he stood in the centre of that tiny moonlit amphitheatre."

Example

More examples

"MacDonald was tall; some trick of the night made him appear almost unhumanly tall as he stood in the centre of that tiny moonlit amphitheatre."

Etymology

From unhuman + -ly or un- + humanly.

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