inhuman

adjective
🔊/ɪnˈhjuːmən/
🔊/ɪnˈhjuːmən/
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  1. not showing sympathy or kind feelings for people who are suffering; very cruel无同情心的;冷酷无情的
    • inhuman and degrading treatment不人道的羞辱性对待
    • What she proposes is positively inhuman!她的提议真是一点人情味儿都没有!
    • The photos showed inhuman and degrading conditions.这些照片展示了不人道和有损尊严的状况。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • consider something
    • regard something as
    adverb
    • totally
    • utterly
    • almost
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  2. not human; not seeming to be produced by a human and therefore frightening非人的;(似非人所为而)恐怖的
    • There was a strange inhuman sound.有一种不像人发出的奇怪声音。🔊🔊
  3. compare human, non-human, subhuman
    Word Originlate Middle English (originally as inhumane): from Latin inhumanus, from in- ‘not’ + humanus (from homo ‘man, human being’).