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Antonyms for humane
hyuˈmeɪn or, often, yu-hu·mane
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term humane.
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
humane
Human denotes what pertains to mankind, with no suggestion as to its being good or evil; as, the human race; human qualities; we speak of human achievements, virtues, or excellences, human follies, vices, or crimes. Humane denotes what may rightly be expected of mankind at its best in the treatment of sentient beings; a humane enterprise or endeavor is one that is intended to prevent or relieve suffering. The humane man will not needlessly inflict pain upon the meanest thing that lives; a merciful man is disposed to withhold or mitigate the suffering even of the guilty. The compassionate man sympathizes with and desires to relieve actual suffering, while one who is humane would forestall and prevent the suffering which he sees to be possible. Compare MERCY; PITIFUL; PITY.
See synonyms for BARBAROUS.
Synonyms:
benevolent, benignant, charitable, clement, compassionate, forgiving, gentle, gracious, human, kind, kind-hearted, merciful, pitying, sympathetic, tender, tender-hearted
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
humane
Antonyms:
unkind, cruel, unmerciful, inhumanSynonyms:
benign, kind, tender, merciful, benevolent, compassionate
Princeton's WordNet
humanist, humanistic, humaneadjective
pertaining to or concerned with the humanities
"humanistic studies"; "a humane education"
Antonyms:
insensate, noncivilized, brutal, brutish, cold-blooded, barbarous, vicious, fell, roughshod, bestial, noncivilised, savage, beastly, inhuman, brute(a), pitiless, unkind, inhumane, cold, cannibalic, cruelSynonyms:
human-centred, humanistic, humanist, human-centered, humanitarianhumaneadjective
marked or motivated by concern with the alleviation of suffering
Antonyms:
brutish, cannibalic, savage, cold, brutal, inhuman, bestial, fell, brute(a), barbarous, beastly, unkind, cold-blooded, inhumane, vicious, roughshod, insensate, cruel, noncivilized, pitiless, noncivilisedSynonyms:
humanistic, humanisthumaneadjective
showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement
Antonyms:
vicious, noncivilized, roughshod, savage, fell, unkind, brute(a), cold, noncivilised, cold-blooded, brutal, pitiless, brutish, cannibalic, bestial, beastly, cruel, inhumane, barbarous, inhuman, insensateSynonyms:
humanistic, humanist
How to use humane in a sentence?
This is the end of a horror story for the Vicha family. still, the way they do it is more humane than what he did to my family. Its not what he deserves but it will be good to know we got as much justice as allowed by the law.
It is more difficult to maintain a realistic sense of human limitation. To refuse to become frustrated and angry, to analyze, to assess, to seek to understand and explain. To determine to be adult and fair. And, thus, to work patiently to improve while refusing to succumb to either cynicism and hopelessness. It is the long way around, but it is the civilized way, and the only way for those who have truly to understand the role of humane learning.
How strange! A dog is more humane than a human is.
It's not humane, the people who come here suffer a lot to come here.
Belarusian Interior Minister Yuri Karaev:
I want to take full responsibility and apologize in a humane way to these people... I'm not Belarusian Interior Minister Yuri Karaev and I don't want any violence.
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