Unhuman

Quick meaning: Unhuman is an adjective meaning Not resembling or having the qualities of a human being.

Meaning

Not resembling or having the qualities of a human being.

More Meanings

1. One who is not human; nonhuman.
2. To make less human; to remove human qualities.

Example Sentences

The book argues that leftists don’t deserve the status of human beings — that they are, as the title says, unhumans — and that they are waging a shadow war against all that is good and decent, which will end in apocalyptic slaughter if they are not stopped.

One of their book’s heroes is the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, who overthrew the democratic Second Spanish Republic in the country’s 1930s civil war. The authors call him a “great man of history” and compare him to George Washington. They quote him on what doesn’t work against the unhuman threat: “We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box.”

Word Forms

• unhumans
• unhumaning
• unhumaned

Synonyms for unhuman

Depending on context, synonyms include nonhuman, dehumanized.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nonhuman, dehumanized, inhuman, unmanly, unhumanistic, infrahuman.

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