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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
inhumane
in·hu·mane BrE [ˌɪnhjuːˈmeɪn] NAmE [ˌɪnhjuːˈmeɪn] adjective
not caring about the suffering of other people; very cruel
Syn: ↑callous
•inhumane treatment of animals/prisoners
Opp: ↑humane
Derived Word: ↑inhumanely
Word Origin:
[inhumane inhumanely] late Middle English (in the sense ‘inhuman, brutal’): originally a variant of ↑inhuman (rare after 1700); in modern use from ↑in- ‘not’ + ↑humane (the current sense dating from the early 19th cent.).
Example Bank:
•They protested about the inhumane treatment of the prisoners.
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