subhuman

Meanings

Plural: subhumans

Adjective

• less than human or not worthy of a human being
  • "treated natives as subhuman"
  • "a subhuman spectacle"
  • "the subhuman primates"

Adjective Satellite

• unfit for human beings
  • "subhuman conditions of life"

Adj

• Lacking characteristics of a human in a way judged to be less than human by some value judgment, opinion, or belief system (as for example an anthropocentric view of nonhuman primates or a Nazi view of various human outgroups).
• As tendentiously asserted of humans.
• Lacking characteristics of a human in a way judged to be less than human by some value judgment, opinion, or belief system (as for example an anthropocentric view of nonhuman primates or a Nazi view of various human outgroups).
• As anthropocentrically asserted of nonhuman animals, especially in centuries past.

Noun

• Any sentient creature, especially a humanoid one, which is less than human by some value judgment, opinion, or belief system (as for example an anthropocentric view of nonhuman primates or a Nazi view of various human outgroups).

Synonyms

infrahuman, Untermensch

Antonyms

superhuman, suprahuman, ultrahuman, übermensch

Related Words

neanderthal, prehuman, troglodyte

Anagrams of subhuman