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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Inhuman \In*hu"man\, adjective [L. inhumanus: cf. F. inhumain. See {In-} not, and {Human}.]
1. Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people.
2. Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment.
Syn: Cruel; unfeeling; pitiless; merciless; savage; barbarous; brutal; ferocious; ruthless; fiendish.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
inhuman
adjective
1: without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" [syn: {cold}, {cold-blooded}, {insensate}]
2: belonging to or resembling something nonhuman; "something dark and inhuman in form"; "a babel of inhuman noises"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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