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unhuman

unhuman adjective: not resembling or having the qualities of a human being.

Adjective

unhuman (comparative more unhuman, superlative most unhuman)

  1. Not resembling or having the qualities of a human being.
    • 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...2024 August 5, Michelle Goldberg, “JD Vance Just Blurbed a Book Arguing That Progressives Are Subhuman”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...

Noun

unhuman (plural unhumans)

  1. One who is not human; nonhuman.
    • 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.2024 August 5, Michelle Goldberg, “JD Vance Just Blurbed a Book Arguing That Progressives Are Subhuman”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...

Verb

unhuman (third-person singular simple present unhumans, present participle unhumaning, simple past and past participle unhumaned)

  1. To make less human; to remove human qualities.

Forms of unhuman

Adjective
comparativemore unhuman
superlativemost unhuman
Noun
pluralunhumans
Verb
third-person singular presentunhumans
present participleunhumaning
past participleunhumaned
pastunhumaned

Origin of unhuman

From un- + human.

Words formed from unhuman

Questions about unhuman

What does unhuman mean?
Unhuman means not resembling or having the qualities of a human being.
What part of speech is unhuman?
Unhuman can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.

Words near unhuman in the dictionary

  1. unhugs
  2. unhull
  3. unhulled
  4. unhulling
  5. unhulls
  6. unhuman
  7. unhumanise
  8. unhumanised
  9. unhumanises
  10. unhumanising
  11. unhumanistic

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