MEANING
1. Cruel or lacking ordinary human compassion.
2. Not human, or beyond ordinary human qualities or limits.
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- inhuman treatment
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The captives endured inhuman treatment.
His inhuman indifference shocked the guard.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Comparative more inhuman; superlative most inhuman where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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