inhumane

Definitions


[ˌɪnhjʊˈmeɪn], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- without compassion for misery or suffering; cruel
(e.g: confining wild horses is inhumane)


Phrases:

Origin:
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 century)




definition by Oxford Dictionaries