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| Main Entry: | inhuman |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | animal |
| Synonyms: | barbaric, barbarous, bestial, brutal, cannibalistic, cold-blooded, cruel, devilish, diabolical, fell, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, grim, hateful, heartless, implacable, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, savage, truculent, unfeeling, unkind, unrelenting, unsympathetic, vicious, inhumane, uncompassionate, wolfish |
| Notes: | inhuman means 'lacking human qualities such as kindness' while inhumane means 'being cruel or insensitive to others' |
| Antonyms: | human |
| Main Entry: | inhuman/inhumane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | animal, savage |
| Synonyms: | barbaric, barbarous, bestial, brutal, cannibalistic, cold-blooded, cruel, devilish, diabolical, fell, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, grim, hateful, heartless, implacable, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, truculent, unfeeling, unkind, unrelenting, unsympathetic, vicious, uncompassionate |
| Antonyms: | animate, human/humane, sensate |
| Main Entry: | barbarian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, savage |
| Synonyms: | barbaric, barbarous, boorish, brutal, coarse, cruel, inhuman, merciless, primitive, rough, rude, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unsophisticated, untamed, vicious, vulgar, wild, lowbrow, philistine |
| Antonyms: | civilized, cultured, educated, humane, kind, nice, polite, refined, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | barbaric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, savage |
| Synonyms: | barbarian, barbarous, boorish, brutal, coarse, cruel, fierce, graceless, inhuman, primitive, rough, rude, tasteless, uncivilized, uncouth, vulgar, wild, lowbrow |
| Main Entry: | barbarous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, savage |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, brutal, coarse, cruel, ferocious, heartless, ignorant, inhuman, monstrous, primitive, rough, rude, ruthless, sadistic, truculent, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, unsophisticated, vicious, vulgar, wicked, wild, brutish, inhumane, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | civilized, cultured, educated, kind, nice, polite, refined, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | bloodthirsty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | murderous |
| Synonyms: | barbaric, cruel, homicidal, inhuman, ruthless, savage, sanguinary, slaughterous |
| Main Entry: | cold-blooded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cruel, heartless |
| Synonyms: | barbarous, brutal, callous, cold, dispassionate, hard-boiled, hardened, imperturbable, inhuman, matter-of-fact, merciless, obdurate, pitiless, relentless, ruthless, savage, unemotional, unfeeling, unmoved, hard-hearted, steely, stony-hearted, uncompassionate |
| Antonyms: | compassionate, demonstrative, feeling, friendly, merciful, nice, sympathetic, warm-blooded |
| Main Entry: | cruel |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vicious, pitiless; causing pain |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, barbarous, bestial, bitter, bloodthirsty, brutal, callous, cold-blooded, degenerate, depraved, evil, excruciating, ferocious, fierce, flinty, hard, harsh, hateful, heartless, hellish, implacable, inexorable, inhuman, malevolent, merciless, monstrous, painful, pernicious, poignant, relentless, revengeful, ruthless, sadistic, sinful, spiteful, tyrannical, unfeeling, unkind, unnatural, unrelenting, vengeful, vicious, virulent, wicked, brutish, demoniac, hard-hearted, inhumane, rancorous |
| Antonyms: | charitable, compassionate, considerate, feeling, gentle, kind, merciful, sympathetic, thoughtful, uncruel |
| Main Entry: | devilish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wicked |
| Synonyms: | accursed, atrocious, bad, cursed, damnable, demonic, detestable, diabolic, diabolical, evil, execrable, fiendish, hellish, infernal, inhuman, iniquitous, nefarious, satanic, serpentine, unhallowed, villainous, Mephistophelian, brutish, cloven-footed, demoniac, hellborn |
| Antonyms: | angelic, godlike, good, moral |
| Main Entry: | ferocious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent, barbaric |
| Synonyms: | barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, cruel, fell, feral, fierce, frightful, grim, implacable, inhuman, lupine, merciless, murderous, pitiless, predatory, rapacious, ravenous, relentless, ruthless, savage, truculent, unmerciful, unrestrained, untamed, vehement, vicious, voracious, wild, brutish, inhumane, ravening, sanguinary, tigerish, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | gentle, innocent, kind, mild, nonviolent, tame, tender |
| Main Entry: | fiendish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | diabolical |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, beastly, cruel, demonic, devilish, diabolic, evil, hellish, inhuman, malicious, nefarious, sadistic, satanic, savage, vicious, wicked, brutish, demonical |
| Main Entry: | hardhearted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cold, cruel |
| Synonyms: | callous, cold-blooded*, hard, hard-boiled*, heartless, indifferent, inhuman, insensitive, intolerant, merciless, obdurate, pitiless, stony, uncaring, unemotional, unfeeling, unkind, unsympathetic, brutish, coldhearted, uncompassionate |
| Antonyms: | compassionate, kind, nice, softhearted, warm |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | heartless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without feeling; cold |
| Synonyms: | brutal, callous, cold fish*, cold-blooded*, cold-hearted*, cruel, hard, hard-boiled*, harsh, inhuman, insensitive, merciless, obdurate, pitiless, ruthless, savage, thick-skinned*, uncaring, unemotional, unfeeling, unkind, unsympathetic, hard as nails, hard-hearted, uncompassionate |
| Antonyms: | compassionate, considerate, feeling, kind, nice, sympathetic, warmhearted, caring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impersonal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cold, unfriendly |
| Synonyms: | abstract, businesslike, candid, cold turkey*, cold-blooded*, colorless, cool, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, emotionless, equal, equitable, fair, formal, impartial, indifferent, inhuman, neutral, objective, remote, straight, unbiased, bureaucratic, nondiscriminatory, poker-faced*, strictly business, uncolored, unpassioned |
| Antonyms: | friendly, informal, personable, personal, warm |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pitiless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without mercy or care |
| Synonyms: | austere, barbarous, brutal, callous, cold*, cruel, cutthroat*, dog-eat-dog*, frigid, hardhearted*, harsh, heartless, implacable, indifferent, inexorable, inhuman, insensible, mean, merciless, obdurate, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, satanic, savage, soulless, stony*, coldblooded, coldhearted, hatchetjob, inhumane, killer instinct |
| Antonyms: | charitable, kind, merciful, sympathetic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | remorseless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without guilt in spite of wrongdoing |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, barbarous, bloody, callous, cruel, fierce, forbidding, greedy, grim, hard, hardened, harsh, impenitent, implacable, inexorable, inhuman, insensitive, intolerant, merciless, murderous, obdurate, pitiless, relentless, rigorous, ruthless, savage, shameless, sour, tough, tyrannical, unforgiving, unmerciful, unrelenting, unyielding, vindictive, hard-bitten, hard-hearted, inhumane, sanguinary, uncompassionate, uncontrite, unregenerate, unremitting, unrepenting |
| Antonyms: | ashamed, guilty, remorseful, sad, sorry |
| Main Entry: | ruthless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mean, heartless |
| Synonyms: | adamant, barbarous, brutal, callous, cold, cold-blooded, cruel, cutthroat, dog-eat-dog*, feral, ferocious, fierce, grim, hard, harsh, implacable, inexorable, inhuman, killer, malevolent, merciless, mortal, obdurate, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, revengeful, sadistic, savage, severe, stern, stony, surly, unfeeling, unforgiving, unmerciful, unrelenting, unsympathetic, unyielding, vicious, vindictive, hard-hearted, ironfisted, rancorous, unappeasable, without pity |
| Antonyms: | compassionate, considerate, gentle, giving, kind, nice, sympathetic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | truculent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | belligerent, hateful |
| Synonyms: | abusive, aggressive, antagonistic, bad-tempered, barbarous, bellicose, brutal, bullying, caustic, combative, contentious, cross, defiant, ferocious, fierce, frightening, harsh, hostile, inhuman, intimidating, invective, mean, militant, mordant, obstreperous, opprobrious, ornery*, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rude, savage, scathing, scurrilous, sharp, sullen, terrifying, trenchant, violent, browbeating, contumelious, cowing, inhumane, mordacious, scrappy, terrorizing, vituperative, vituperous |
| Antonyms: | cooperative, gentle, mild, nice, tame |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unfeeling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard-hearted, numb |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, asleep, brutal, callous, cantankerous, churlish, cold, cold fish*, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, crotchety, cruel, exacting, hard, hardened, heartless, icy, inanimate, inhuman, insensate, insensible, insensitive, merciless, obdurate, pitiless, ruthless, senseless, severe, stony, surly, thick-skinned*, tough, uncaring, unemotional, unkind, unsympathetic, anesthetized, benumbed, deadened, feelingless, iron-hearted, sensationless, unamiable, uncompassionate, uncordial |
| Antonyms: | concerned, feeling, loving, sensitive, caring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unkind |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not nice |
| Synonyms: | barbarous, brutal, cold-blooded, cruel, harsh, hateful, heartless, inconsiderate, inhuman, insensitive, malevolent, malicious, malignant, mean, nasty, sadistic, savage, spiteful, thoughtless, uncaring, uncharitable, unfeeling, unfriendly, unsympathetic, coldhearted, hard-hearted, inhumane |
| Antonyms: | considerate, friendly, giving, kind, nice |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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