UNHUMAN Definition & Meaning

unhuman

[ uhn-hyoo-muhn, or, often, ‐-yoo-muhn ]

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adjective

lacking human attributes:
The unhuman figures in his earlier work were not well received.
of a quality or power beyond what is human; superhuman:
Her hands clenched the chair with unhuman strength.
not a member of the human species:
Of our unhuman relatives, I love the mountain gorillas best.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of unhuman¹

First recorded in 1780–85; un- ¹( def ) + human ( def )

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"She was on a golf cart with four terrorists around her. I was terrified. I couldn't believe it was even possible to kidnap an 85-year-old woman from her bed. It is unhuman behaviour, beyond possible."

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Office of Human Rights in Geneva called it “deeply disturbing” and declared that all public executions “constitute a form of cruel, unhuman or degrading punishment.”

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There was something so panther-like in the movement—something so unhuman, that it seemed to sober us all from the shock of his coming.

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It’s a difficult achievement – I think it’s almost unhuman.

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In Egypt, a towering colossus, immobile, beyond the power of the imagination to endow with movement, as fixed in the stone as the tremendous temple columns, a representation of the human shape deliberately made unhuman.

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