Meanings
comparative more unhuman · superlative most unhuman
- Not resembling or having the qualities of a human being.
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One of their book’s heroes is the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, who overthrew the democratic Second Spanish Republic in the country’s 1930s civil war. The authors call him a “great man of history” and compare him to George Washington. They quote him on what doesn’t work against the unhuman threat: “We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box.”
2024 August 5, Michelle Goldberg, “JD Vance Just Blurbed a Book Arguing That Progressives Are Subhuman”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2024
plural unhumans
- One who is not human; nonhuman.
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.
2024 August 5, Michelle Goldberg, “JD Vance Just Blurbed a Book Arguing That Progressives Are Subhuman”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2024
present singular third person unhumans · participle present unhumaning · participle past unhumaned · past unhumaned
- To make less human; to remove human qualities.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivedivested of human qualities or attributes
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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unhuman. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhuman
“unhuman.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhuman. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unhuman,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhuman.
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