1.
[syn: cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate]
2. belonging to or resembling something nonhuman;
- Example: "something dark and inhuman in form"
- Example: "a babel of inhuman noises"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Inhuman \In*hu"man\, a. [L. inhumanus: cf. F. inhumain. See
In- not, and Human.]
[1913 Webster]
1. Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a
human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an
inhuman person or people.
[1913 Webster]
2. Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an
inhuman act or punishment.
Syn: Cruel; unfeeling; pitiless; merciless; savage;
barbarous; brutal; ferocious; ruthless; fiendish.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
inhuman
adj 1: without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood";
"cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" [syn:
cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate]
2: belonging to or resembling something nonhuman; "something
dark and inhuman in form"; "a babel of inhuman noises"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "inhuman":
Draconian, Tartarean, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric,
barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded,
brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, callous, cannibalistic,
cold-blooded, cruel, cruel-hearted, demoniac, demoniacal, demonic,
demonish, demonlike, devil-like, devilish, diabolic, diabolical,
fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce,
ghoulish, heartless, hellish, implacable, infernal, inhumane,
insensitive, kill-crazy, malicious, malign, malignant, merciless,
murderous, noncivilized, ogreish, pitiless, relentless, ruthless,
sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, severe,
sharkish, slavering, subhuman, tameless, truculent, unchristian,
uncivilized, uncompassionate, unfeeling, ungentle, unhuman, unkind,
unkindly, unrelenting, unsympathetic, untamed, vicious, wild,
wolfish