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Webster 1913 Edition


Inhuman

In-hu′man

,
Adj.
[L.
inhumanus
: cf. F.
inhumain
. See
In-
not, and
Human
.]
1.
Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling;
as, an
inhuman
person or people
.
Syn. – Cruel; unfeeling; pitiless; merciless; savage; barbarous; brutal; ferocious; ruthless; fiendish.

Webster 1828 Edition


Inhuman

INHU'MAN

,
Adj.
[L. inhumanus; in and humanus, humane.]
1.
Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as an inhuman person or people.
2.
Marked with cruelty; as an inhuman act.