inhumane

[ in-hyoo-meyn or, often, -yoo- ]

/ ˌɪn hyuˈmeɪn or, often, -yu- /

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adjective

not humane; lacking humanity, kindness, compassion, etc.

RELATED WORDS

unrelenting, implacable, inexorable, barbarous, harsh, ruthless, callous, severe, grim, unyielding, cruel, fierce, unforgiving, relentless, unsparing, murderous, atrocious, inhuman, brutal, bloody

Nearby words

inhomogeneity, inhomogeneous, inhospitable, inhospitality, inhuman, inhumane, inhumanity, inhume, inimical, inimitable, inion

Origin of inhumane

1590–1600; variant of inhuman; see in-³, humane

Related forms

in·hu·mane·ly, adverb

Can be confused

inhuman inhumane

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for inhumane

Not to those in power, not to the cruel and inhumane, not to the wealthy.
Jesus Wasn’t Born Rich. Think About It.|Gene Robinson|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Sir, Mr. Davutoğlu, in the meantime, with its inhumane actions, ISIS commits atrocities.
Dear Turkish PM: It’s Time to Act to Save Kobani’s Kurds|Bahman Ghobani|October 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Most of these institutions were inhumane, and advocates had been writing for more than 100 years urging for their closure.
Government Has Failed the Mentally Ill|Monica Potts|September 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“We were told his conditions were horrific and inhumane,” one Congressional aid told The Daily Beast.
4 of ‘Taliban 5’ Will Likely Fight Again, U.S. Spies Say|Eli Lake, Kimberly Dozier|June 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The Daily Beast reported that locking up HIV patients is “inhumane”.
U.N. Apologizes For Greek HIV/AIDS Report|Barbie Latza Nadeau|November 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The slaves were a caste, but the laws regarding them were exact and not inhumane.
Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria|Lewis Spence
It would be inhumane in the Editor to ask any of it for himself, when it is about to undergo such an exertion.
Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare|Walter Savage Landor
So the brawl passed with no other casualty than might seem comic to the inhumane.
In the South Seas|Robert Louis Stevenson
A memory hangs about me of the House in the early afternoon, an inhumane desolation inhabited almost entirely by silk hats.
The New Machiavelli|Herbert George Wells
I suppose it's inhumane, but mine is a monstrously interesting trade, even in a little place like this.
The Trees of Pride|G.K. Chesterton