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Definition of subhuman in English: subhumanadjective sʌbˈhjuːmənˌsəbˈ(h)jumən 1Of a lower order of being than humans. 低于人类的 Example sentencesExamples - I would be the first to agree that these liberals have a right to try and retrieve their relatively accurate, highly tarnished satanic and subhuman image.
- Thus, like the pagan of old, the materialist ends up subjecting man to the subhuman.
- I've been in many homes where the cleaning help is treated as subhuman - ordered around, made to eat separately, severely criticized - by the same people arguing adamantly in favor of civil rights.
- Projecting a subhuman image of the opponent in order to legitimize violence and human rights violations is a commonly used psychological tool.
Synonyms carnal, fleshly, bodily, physical, sensual - 1.1Zoology (of a primate) closely related to humans.
〔动〕(灵长类动物)与人类密切相连的,与人类密切相关的 Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- Each of the traditions distinguishes between human, as against subhuman life, behavior and animal.
- First, there is no evidence from anthropology or from studies of subhuman primates that a ‘primal horde’ dominated by a single male ever existed.
- 1.2 Not worthy of a human being; debased or depraved.
〈贬〉(人或其行为)不齿于人类的;非人的;堕落的 he regards all PR people as subhuman 他认为所有搞公关的人都是次一等的。 Example sentencesExamples - Though treated as subhuman, peasants were of course neither deaf, dumb, nor incapable of acting on their perceived interests.
- He's far from the only general partner to treat limited partners as something subhuman.
- They are the victims of appalling brutality, singled out by the Nazis as subhuman and beaten mercilessly.
- In rural areas, particularly in the southern states, conditions were subhuman.
- Throughout history, whenever any group has been labelled subhuman, serious abuse has followed.
Synonyms savage, brutish, brutal, barbarous, barbaric, cruel, vicious, violent, inhuman
noun sʌbˈhjuːmənˌsəbˈ(h)jumən A subhuman creature or person. 低于人类的生物;堕落的人 Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- This terrorism reduced Africans to subhumans whose resources and labor were used to develop foreign countries, which terrorized the African people.
- Attempting to contract with subhumans has predictable consequences, consequences that correspond exactly with attempts to contract with two-legged subhumans.
- With the aid of this conjunctio oppositorum, one superhuman, the other subhuman, Prospero restores his realm's people to their ‘proper selves’.
- They warn of a ‘self-fulfilling prophesy’: If men are told over and over that they are not only brutal subhumans in general but also hostile to women in particular, they are likely to say, ‘So be it.’
- British cartoons routinely depicted the Irish as anarchists, pigs, monkeys, apes, monsters, bog-trotters, and subhumans.
- Carried far enough, the person in power sees those under control as beasts or subhumans.
Rhymescrewman, crewmen, energumen, human, ichneumon, Newman, numen, Schumann, Trueman Definition of subhuman in US English: subhumanadjectiveˌsəbˈ(h)yo͞omənˌsəbˈ(h)jumən 1Of a lower order of being than the human. 低于人类的 Example sentencesExamples - Projecting a subhuman image of the opponent in order to legitimize violence and human rights violations is a commonly used psychological tool.
- I would be the first to agree that these liberals have a right to try and retrieve their relatively accurate, highly tarnished satanic and subhuman image.
- I've been in many homes where the cleaning help is treated as subhuman - ordered around, made to eat separately, severely criticized - by the same people arguing adamantly in favor of civil rights.
- Thus, like the pagan of old, the materialist ends up subjecting man to the subhuman.
Synonyms carnal, fleshly, bodily, physical, sensual - 1.1Zoology (of a primate) closely related to humans.
〔动〕(灵长类动物)与人类密切相连的,与人类密切相关的 Example sentencesExamples - Each of the traditions distinguishes between human, as against subhuman life, behavior and animal.
- First, there is no evidence from anthropology or from studies of subhuman primates that a ‘primal horde’ dominated by a single male ever existed.
- 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.
- 1.2 (of people or their behavior) not worthy of a human being; debased or depraved.
〈贬〉(人或其行为)不齿于人类的;非人的;堕落的 he regards all PR people as subhuman 他认为所有搞公关的人都是次一等的。 Example sentencesExamples - Though treated as subhuman, peasants were of course neither deaf, dumb, nor incapable of acting on their perceived interests.
- They are the victims of appalling brutality, singled out by the Nazis as subhuman and beaten mercilessly.
- In rural areas, particularly in the southern states, conditions were subhuman.
- He's far from the only general partner to treat limited partners as something subhuman.
- Throughout history, whenever any group has been labelled subhuman, serious abuse has followed.
Synonyms savage, brutish, brutal, barbarous, barbaric, cruel, vicious, violent, inhuman
nounˌsəbˈ(h)yo͞omənˌsəbˈ(h)jumən A subhuman creature or person. 低于人类的生物;堕落的人 Example sentencesExamples - This terrorism reduced Africans to subhumans whose resources and labor were used to develop foreign countries, which terrorized the African people.
- Carried far enough, the person in power sees those under control as beasts or subhumans.
- Attempting to contract with subhumans has predictable consequences, consequences that correspond exactly with attempts to contract with two-legged subhumans.
- 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.
- British cartoons routinely depicted the Irish as anarchists, pigs, monkeys, apes, monsters, bog-trotters, and subhumans.
- They warn of a ‘self-fulfilling prophesy’: If men are told over and over that they are not only brutal subhumans in general but also hostile to women in particular, they are likely to say, ‘So be it.’
- With the aid of this conjunctio oppositorum, one superhuman, the other subhuman, Prospero restores his realm's people to their ‘proper selves’.
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