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inhumane
What does inhumane mean?
inhumane (adjective): lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use inhumane in a sentence?
- That seems inhumane to me. (Tatoeba sentence #4984304 by CK, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce inhumane?
/ɪnhjuˈmeɪn/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does inhumane come from?
Originally a variant spelling and pronunciation of inhuman, ultimately from Latin inhūmānus.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are antonyms of inhumane?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “inhumane” mean?
being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting
Not quite: that's what parallel means.
less than normal in degree or intensity or amount
Not quite: that's what low means.
lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion
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with little or no sound; free of disturbing noise
Not quite: that's what quiet means.
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