INHUMAN

adj. 1 inhumane, merciless, cruel, pitiless, ruthless, heartless, severe, unsympathetic, unfeeling, unkind, unkindly, uncompassionate, cold-blooded, vicious, stony-hearted, hard-hearted, callous, insensitive, barbaric, barbarous, savage Many refugees have suffered torture and other inhuman treatment 2 animal, bestial, brutal, brutish, fiendish, diabolical, demonic The spectre, assuming an inhuman form, loomed over them