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Definition: Inhumane |
InhumaneAdjective1. Lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion; "humans are innately inhumane; this explains much of the misery and suffering in the world"; "biological weapons are considered too inhumane to be used". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inhumane" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Antonym: humane (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Inhumane |
| English words defined with "inhumane": abuse, atrociousness, atrocity ♦ barbarity, barbarousness, bestially, brutishly ♦ heinousness ♦ ill-treatment, ill-usage, in a beastly manner, inhumanely ♦ maltreatment. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "inhumane": animal control officer, ANIMAL TREATMENT INVESTIGATOR ♦ Lamb. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Inhumane" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Latin (inhumanly). |
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Screenplays | Think about ither mothers death leaves her disturbed and hostile in a cruel and inhumane world (Scream; writing credit: Kevin Williamson) | |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | She led a hard life, and somewhat inhumane. |
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Children | Indonesia | NGO's criticize this practice as ineffective and inhumane. (references) |
Human Rights | Fiji | The Constitution provides for freedom from torture and cruel, inhumane, degrading, or disproportionately severe treatment or punishment. (references) |
Nepal | However, due to the inadequacy of appropriate facilities, the authorities sometimes place mentally ill prisoners in jails under inhumane conditions. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Indonesia | NGO's have estimated that as many as 3,000 once children worked on fishing platforms, known as "jermals," under inhumane and dangerous conditions; however, the number of children working on jermals has gone down. (references) |
Guinea | The law prohibits the exploitation of vulnerable persons for unpaid or underpaid labor, which carries a penalty of 6 months to 5 years imprisonment and a fine of approximately $25 (36,400) to $150 (GF 218,400). Submitting a vulnerable or dependent person to inhumane working or living conditions carries a sentence of 1 month to five years imprisonment and a fine of approximately $25 to $250 (GF 364,000). Several government agencies, particularly the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Promotion of Women and Children, are involved in antitrafficking efforts. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Inhumane" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inhumane" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 63 | 42,364 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
inhumane | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "inhumane"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i panjerëzishëm (discourteous). (various references) | |
Arabic | وحشي (atrocious, barbarian, barbarous, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, brutal, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, cruel, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, feral, fiendish, fierce, ill, inhuman, insensate, remorseless, ruffian, savage, truculent, unfeeling, vicious, wanton, wild), غير إنساني (inhuman), غير بشري. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | коравосърдечен (callous, flinthearted, hardhearted, obdurate, stony, stony hearted, unfeeling, unforgiving, unpitying, unsympathetic), нехуманен, нечовечен (inhuman), жесток (bestial, bloody, butcherly, cruel, dark, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, draconic, fell, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, ghoulish, grinding, harsh, ill, infernal, inhuman, iron, mean, merciless, monstrous, outrageous, sanguinary, shrewd, slashing, truculent, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful, unrelenting), безчовечен (inhuman). (various references) | |
Czech | nehumánní. (various references) | |
Farsi | غیرانسانی(inhuman). (various references) | |
French | inhumain (inhuman), cruel, brutal. (various references) | |
German | unmenschlich (inhuman, inhumanly, unhuman). (various references) | |
Greek | αφιλάνθρωποσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לא אנושי (inhuman), אכזרי (brutal, cruel, fell, ferocious, merciless, savage, tigerish, unfeeling). (various references) | |
Hungarian | embertelen (inhuman), érzéketlen (callous, have a thick skin, impassible, unfeeling). (various references) | |
Italian | inumano (inhuman). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 酷薄 (cruel), 刻薄 (cruel). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | こくはく (acknowledgement, black and white, confession, cruel, right and wrong). (various references) | |
Manx | oanluckey 'sy thalloo. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inhumaneay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inumano (inhuman), desumano (atrocious, fell, flint-hearted, flinty, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, merciless, ruthless, soulless, unmerciful). (various references) | |
Romanian | lipsit de omenie. (various references) | |
Russian | негуманный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nehuman (brutal, inhuman). (various references) | |
Spanish | inhumano (inhuman), despiadado (pitiless, unmerciful). (various references) | |
Swedish | inhuman (inhuman), omänsklig (barbarous, inhuman). (various references) | |
Turkish | insanlık dışı (barbarous, barbarously, diabolic, diabolical, inhuman, unnatural), insafsız (confiscatory, cutthroat, fell, heartless, inequitable, iniquitous, merciless, relentless, ruthless, unconscientious, unconscionable, unfair, unfeeling, unjust, unkind, unmerciful, wrongful), acımasız (atrocious, brutal, coldhearted, cruel, cutthroat, dead, despot, ferocious, fiendish, flinty, grim, hard-hearted, harsh, implacable, inclement, inexorable, merciless, outrageous, pitiless, relentless, ruthless, slashing, stern, truculent, tyrannic, tyrannical, tyrannous, unmerciful, unpitied, unrelenting, without remorse). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | негуманний. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không có lòng thương người; độc ác. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "inhumane": inhumanely. (additional references) | |
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"Inhumane" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abhuman, Ansumana, Ansumane, Aunshuman, Inhambane, inhumain, Ithominae. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "inhumane" (pronounced i'nhyuwmā"n) |
| 6 | -h y uw m ā" n | humane. |
| 3 | -m ā" n | domain, germane, legerdemain, main, mane, remain, Romaine. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-m-n-n-u" | |
-1 letter: inhuman. | |
-2 letters: haemin, humane, inhume, numina. | |
-3 letters: amine, anime, ennui, hemin, henna, human, inane, minae, numen, unman. | |
-4 letters: ahem, amen, amie, amin, haem, haen, hame, main, mane, maun, mean, menu, mien, mina, mine, muni, name, nema, neum, nine, unai. | |
-5 letters: aim, ain, ami, amu, ane, ani, eau, emu, hae, ham, hem, hen, hie, him, hin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-m-n-n-u" | |
+2 letters: inhumanely. | |
+3 letters: inhumanness. | |
+4 letters: dehumanizing, inhumanities, languishment, multichannel, rehumanizing, unmechanized. | |
+5 letters: hemagglutinin, inhumannesses, languishments, multichannels. | |
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