inhumane
adjective /ˌɪnhjuːˈmeɪn/
/ˌɪnhjuːˈmeɪn/
- not caring about the pain or problems of other people or animals; very cruel
synonym callous(对待人或动物)残忍的,不人道的 - inhumane treatment of animals/prisoners
对动物的残忍行为;对囚犯的非人对待
Collocations DictionaryInhumane is used with these nouns:- condition
- treatment
词源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.). - inhumane treatment of animals/prisoners