Inhuman

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inhuman \In*hu"man\, a. [L. inhumanus: cf. F. inhumain. See
     {In-} not, and {Human}.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a
        human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an
        inhuman person or people.


        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an
        inhuman act or punishment.
  
     Syn: Cruel; unfeeling; pitiless; merciless; savage;
          barbarous; brutal; ferocious; ruthless; fiendish.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inhuman
       adj 1: without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood";
              "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" [syn:
              {cold}, {cold-blooded}, {insensate}]
       2: belonging to or resembling something nonhuman; "something
          dark and inhuman in form"; "a babel of inhuman noises"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "inhuman":
     Draconian, Tartarean, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric,
     barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded,
     brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, callous, cannibalistic,
     cold-blooded, cruel, cruel-hearted, demoniac, demoniacal, demonic,
     demonish, demonlike, devil-like, devilish, diabolic, diabolical,
     fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce,
     ghoulish, heartless, hellish, implacable, infernal, inhumane,
     insensitive, kill-crazy, malicious, malign, malignant, merciless,
     murderous, noncivilized, ogreish, pitiless, relentless, ruthless,
     sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, severe,
     sharkish, slavering, subhuman, tameless, truculent, unchristian,
     uncivilized, uncompassionate, unfeeling, ungentle, unhuman, unkind,
     unkindly, unrelenting, unsympathetic, untamed, vicious, wild,
     wolfish