Inhuman
adjective
Cruel and barbaric, not treating people with kindness and respect.
His inhuman treatment of the prisoners was highly criticized.
Often appears as...
- inhuman treatment
- inhuman conditions
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Disapproving
adjective
Lacking human qualities of compassion and mercy.
The inhuman nature of the attack led to worldwide condemnation.
Often appears as...
- inhuman nature
- inhuman act
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Disapproving
adjective
Not possible for a human being, often used to refer to exceptional skills or powers.
He displayed an inhuman strength during the competition.
Often appears as...
- inhuman strength
- inhuman ability
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Approving
adjective
Cruel and barbaric, not treating people with kindness and respect.
His inhuman treatment of the prisoners was highly criticized.
Often appears as...
- inhuman treatment
- inhuman conditions
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Disapproving
adjective
Lacking human qualities of compassion and mercy.
The inhuman nature of the attack led to worldwide condemnation.
Often appears as...
- inhuman nature
- inhuman act
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Not possible for a human being, often used to refer to exceptional skills or powers.
He displayed an inhuman strength during the competition.
Often appears as...
- inhuman strength
- inhuman ability
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Approving
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Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The word 'inhuman' has a strong negative meaning, indicating extreme cruelty.
The inhuman practices at the factory were exposed in the news.
Pro Tip 2/3Hyperbolic Usage
'Inhuman' can be used to exaggerate for effect, but be mindful of the seriousness it implies.
He worked us inhuman hours without a break!
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Literal
Sometimes 'inhuman' describes a feeling about actions, not actual non-human traits.
Ignoring the homeless on cold nights seems inhuman to many.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The word 'inhuman' has a strong negative meaning, indicating extreme cruelty.
The inhuman practices at the factory were exposed in the news.
Pro Tip 2/3Hyperbolic Usage
'Inhuman' can be used to exaggerate for effect, but be mindful of the seriousness it implies.
He worked us inhuman hours without a break!
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Literal
Sometimes 'inhuman' describes a feeling about actions, not actual non-human traits.
Ignoring the homeless on cold nights seems inhuman to many.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The word 'inhuman' has a strong negative meaning, indicating extreme cruelty.
The inhuman practices at the factory were exposed in the news.
Pro Tip 2/3Hyperbolic Usage
'Inhuman' can be used to exaggerate for effect, but be mindful of the seriousness it implies.
He worked us inhuman hours without a break!
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Literal
Sometimes 'inhuman' describes a feeling about actions, not actual non-human traits.
Ignoring the homeless on cold nights seems inhuman to many.
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Julian Assange: Why the...
whose son is out serving the U.S. military, and he says, "You know what, you've put up something that someone had an incentive to put out. It shows a U.S. soldier laughing at people dying. That gives the impression, has given the impression, to millions of people around the world that U.S. soldiers are inhuman people.
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Chimps vs. Humans:...
so compassion is giving to someone else but a sense that I owe you something that's something that it's been inhuman among humans as long as we've been writing and that's one first as we chose to write about but the chimpanzees show a set of sense of specific debt I did this for you so therefore there's
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A global movement to...
also felt the shock of seeing the world turning inward. We realized that despite being from three different countries, we witnessed the same migration flows being dealt with in an inhuman manner, climate change or high youth unemployment. And we also had the same hopes and dreams in our everyday lives.
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My photographs bear...
Children who couldn't be supported by their families were raised in government orphanages. Children with birth defects were labeled incurables, and confined for life to inhuman conditions. As reports began to surface, again international aid went in.
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Safari Live - Day 272 PIPE...
around here the males that were within comas until more up until as far as we know this morning oh my feelings are is that when the Inhumans went hunting last night they said to the boys okay you go that way off you go we'll be right behind you and
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The 15-minute city PIPE...
I would like to offer a concept of cities that goes in the opposite direction to modern urbanism, an attempt at converging life into a human-sized space rather than fracturing it into inhuman bigness
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Our dangerous obsession...
When are we going to appreciate that there is something fundamentally inhuman about limitless perfection? No one is flawless. If we want to help our young people escape the trap of perfectionism,
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Two Orphan Hippos Being...
strong anchor Molly's imprint is on Emma Molly's imprint is not at all an inhuman we busy preparing a area for them near the river with with much less human contact petronella wants them to get
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Our story of rape and...
it's that much easier to file them away as someone damaged, dishonored, less than. And likewise, once someone has been branded a rapist, it's that much easier to call him a monster -- inhuman.
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The Case for Radically...
My goal is to try to help trigger a global humanizing movement that no longer tolerates soulless, inhuman places. What if our buildings inspired us
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Julian Assange: Why the...
whose son is out serving the U.S. military, and he says, "You know what, you've put up something that someone had an incentive to put out. It shows a U.S. soldier laughing at people dying. That gives the impression, has given the impression, to millions of people around the world that U.S. soldiers are inhuman people.
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Chimps vs. Humans:...
so compassion is giving to someone else but a sense that I owe you something that's something that it's been inhuman among humans as long as we've been writing and that's one first as we chose to write about but the chimpanzees show a set of sense of specific debt I did this for you so therefore there's
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A global movement to...
also felt the shock of seeing the world turning inward. We realized that despite being from three different countries, we witnessed the same migration flows being dealt with in an inhuman manner, climate change or high youth unemployment. And we also had the same hopes and dreams in our everyday lives.
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My photographs bear...
Children who couldn't be supported by their families were raised in government orphanages. Children with birth defects were labeled incurables, and confined for life to inhuman conditions. As reports began to surface, again international aid went in.
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Safari Live - Day 272 PIPE...
around here the males that were within comas until more up until as far as we know this morning oh my feelings are is that when the Inhumans went hunting last night they said to the boys okay you go that way off you go we'll be right behind you and
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The 15-minute city PIPE...
I would like to offer a concept of cities that goes in the opposite direction to modern urbanism, an attempt at converging life into a human-sized space rather than fracturing it into inhuman bigness
Video examples
Our dangerous obsession...
When are we going to appreciate that there is something fundamentally inhuman about limitless perfection? No one is flawless. If we want to help our young people escape the trap of perfectionism,
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Two Orphan Hippos Being...
strong anchor Molly's imprint is on Emma Molly's imprint is not at all an inhuman we busy preparing a area for them near the river with with much less human contact petronella wants them to get
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Our story of rape and...
it's that much easier to file them away as someone damaged, dishonored, less than. And likewise, once someone has been branded a rapist, it's that much easier to call him a monster -- inhuman.
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The Case for Radically...
My goal is to try to help trigger a global humanizing movement that no longer tolerates soulless, inhuman places. What if our buildings inspired us
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Kim Brooks
American Writer
When I read stories of suffering, I still feel something. It seems inhuman not to. At the same time, I'm more aware than ever of how little my feeling is worth, of how - if we are to truly keep alive the conditions that make ethical life possible - it is not empathy that's needed but insight, organization, and action.
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David Attenborough
British Journalist
We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and it's not an inhuman thing to say. It's the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it's going to get worse and worse.
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Fidel Castro
Statesman
I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.
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Aditi Rao Hydari
Indian Actress
Most of the parents in India, especially in smaller towns, fear for daughters due to the inhuman treatment meted out to them. They want her to go away, saying, 'You're not my responsibility anymore.' I don't understand: why don't we nurture our girls?
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Lou Doillon
French Actress
I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English Poet
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Ivo Andric
Writer
One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.
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Guillaume Apollinaire
French Novelist
Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Swiss Author
This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?
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Frederick Douglass
American Author
That which is inhuman cannot be divine.
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Kim Brooks
American Writer
When I read stories of suffering, I still feel something. It seems inhuman not to. At the same time, I'm more aware than ever of how little my feeling is worth, of how - if we are to truly keep alive the conditions that make ethical life possible - it is not empathy that's needed but insight, organization, and action.
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David Attenborough
British Journalist
We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and it's not an inhuman thing to say. It's the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it's going to get worse and worse.
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Fidel Castro
Statesman
I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.
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Aditi Rao Hydari
Indian Actress
Most of the parents in India, especially in smaller towns, fear for daughters due to the inhuman treatment meted out to them. They want her to go away, saying, 'You're not my responsibility anymore.' I don't understand: why don't we nurture our girls?
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Lou Doillon
French Actress
I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English Poet
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Ivo Andric
Writer
One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.
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Guillaume Apollinaire
French Novelist
Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Swiss Author
This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?
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Frederick Douglass
American Author
That which is inhuman cannot be divine.
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