unhuman

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ human.

Adjective

unhuman (comparative more unhuman, superlative most unhuman)

  1. Not resembling or having the qualities of a human being.

Noun

unhuman (plural unhumans)

  1. One who is not human; nonhuman.
    • 2024 August 5, Michelle Goldberg, “JD Vance Just Blurbed a Book Arguing That Progressives Are Subhuman”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      The book argues that leftists don’t deserve the status of human beings — that they are, as the title says, unhumans — and that they are waging a shadow war against all that is good and decent, which will end in apocalyptic slaughter if they are not stopped.
      (Can we archive this URL?)

Verb

unhuman (third-person singular simple present unhumans, present participle unhumaning, simple past and past participle unhumaned)

  1. To make less human or removing human qualities

See also

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