Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion;
- Example: "humans are innately inhumane this explains much of the misery and suffering in the world";
- Example: "biological weapons are considered too inhumane to be used"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
inhumane \in`hu*mane"\ ([i^]n`h[=u]*m[=a]n"), adj.
not humane; lacking and reflecting lack of pity, kindness, or
compassion; as, humans are innately inhumane; this explains
much of the misery and suffering in the world; biological
weapons are considered too inhumane to be used. [Narrower
terms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage,
vicious; beastly, bestial, brute(prenominal), brutish,
cannibalic ; {brutal, cruel; cold, cold-blooded, inhuman,
insensate ; {pitiless, unfeeling, unkind ; {painful (vs.
painless) ] Also See: {uncivilized. Antonym: humane.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
inhumane
adj 1: 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" [ant: humane]