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[ UK /sˈʌbhjuːmən/ ]
[ US /ˌsəbˈhjumən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. less than human or not worthy of a human being
    the subhuman primates
    treated natives as subhuman
    a subhuman spectacle
  2. unfit for human beings
    subhuman conditions of life

How To Use subhuman In A Sentence

  • treated natives as subhuman
  • Carried far enough, the person in power sees those under control as beasts or subhumans.
  • They are the victims of appalling brutality, singled out by the Nazis as subhuman and beaten mercilessly.
  • I've been in many homes where the cleaning help is treated as subhuman.
  • And, those conditions can only be described as subhuman - dangerously filthy, and without the most rudimentary sanitary facilities or basic medical care. William Fisher: Immigration: Emma Lazarus Redux
  • Instead of a single factor with chemoattractant activity as found with subhuman primate cells and guinea pig cells, two factors were identified that selectively attracted PMNs but not mononuclear cells.
  • Advocates of out-and-out conquest argued that Indians were either subhumans or heathens and were therefore incapable of having dominion over themselves or over property.
  • With the aid of this conjunctio oppositorum, one superhuman, the other subhuman, Prospero restores his realm's people to their ‘proper selves’.
  • The German people in the 1930s and 1940s were systematically brainwashed on National Socialist racist propaganda that portrayed the Jews as "Untermensch" - a subhuman scourge that was responsible for the woes of Germany and needed to be eradicated. Latest News
  • The enemy was regarded as subhuman.
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