subhuman
pronunciation
How to pronounce subhuman in British English:
UK [ˌsʌbˈhju:mən]
How to pronounce subhuman in American English:
US [sʌbˈhjumən]
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- Adjective:
- less than human or not worthy of a human being
- unfit for human beings
Word Origin
- subhuman (adj.)
- 1790, from sub- + human. The noun is first recorded 1957.
Example
- 1. Lacking in intelligence or reason ; subhuman .
- 2. Treated natives as subhuman ; a subhuman spectacle ; the subhuman primates .
- 3. Some 140000 people died in wars in bosnia , croatia and kosovo , as authoritarian politicians purged their countries of those they saw as subversive or subhuman .
- 4. Without these man becomes subhuman .
- 5. Could it be possible I was one of those subhuman things ?