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subhuman

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of subhuman

having or showing the nature and appetites of a lower animal

years of grinding poverty that had reduced them to a subhuman existence

Synonyms of subhuman

animalistic, beastly, bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, feral, ferine, swinish

Words Related to subhuman

animal, bodily, carnal, corporal, corporeal, fleshly, physical, sensual

barbaric, barbarous, cruel, heartless, inhumane, sadistic, savage, vicious, wanton

coarse, crass, crude, gross, ill-bred, lowbred, rude, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unrefined, vulgar

Near Antonyms of subhuman

chivalrous, elevated, gallant, great, greathearted, high, high-minded, lofty, lordly, magnanimous, noble, sublime

angelic (or angelical), spiritual

beneficent, benevolent, benignant, compassionate, good-hearted, kind, kindhearted, kindly, softhearted, tenderhearted

cultivated, cultured, genteel, polished, refined, well-bred

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