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inhumane

inhumane

English

Adjective

inhumane ‎(comparative more inhumane, superlative most inhumane)

lacking pity or compassion for misery and suffering; cruel, unkind, not humane.

Translations

cruel and savage, not humane

Chinese:
Mandarin: 不人道的 (zh) ‎(bùréndào de)
Czech: nelidský, nehumánní
Finnish: epäinhimillinen (fi)
French: inhumain (fr) m
German: unmenschlich (de), inhuman
Hungarian: embertelen (hu)

Irish: mídhaonnachtúil
Italian: inumano (it)
Japanese: 非人道的 ‎(ひじんどうてき, hijindōteki)
Khmer: ដែលសាហាវ ‎(dael saahaav)
Portuguese: inumano (pt)
Russian: бесчелове́чный (ru) ‎(besčelovéčnyj), негума́нный (ru) ‎(negumánnyj)
Spanish: inhumano (es)

Antonyms

humane

German

Adjective

inhumane

inflected form of inhuman

Latin

Adjective

inhūmāne

vocative masculine singular of inhūmānus

References

inhumane in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
inhumane in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “inhumane”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.