nonhuman

adjective

non·​hu·​man ˌnän-ˈhyü-mən 

-ˈyü-

: not human: such as

a

: being other than a human being

a nonhuman primate/animal

b

: not belonging to, appropriate to, or produced by human beings

nonhuman noises

nonhuman cells

nonhuman noun

Discarding the doctrine of human dignity can mean lowering the moral status of humans or raising the moral status of nonhumans, and Mr. Rachels's emphasis is ultimately on the latter.

—Robert Wright

Examples of nonhuman in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In addition to nonhuman labor, the series requires housewives to engage in hypervisible, hybrid labor as a gendered spectacle of love. —Literary Hub, 26 June 2025

Visually, this musical about nonhuman characters resembles at moments the screen of an iPhone, but the humanity of the story is always in sight. —Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025

But playing a nonhuman character requires a different — or additional — calculation. —Vincent Tullo, New York Times, 16 May 2025

And workers in many fields fear that AI – or robots, or other nonhuman hands – might sweep in to replace them. —Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 18 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1839, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for nonhuman

• acumen
• albumen
• albumin
• bitumen
• cerumen
• curcumin
• illumine
• inhuman
• subhuman
• crewman
• crewmen
• cumin