adj benevolent; philanthropic.
2. humanitarian ·noun one who denies the divinity of christ, and believes him to have been merely human.
3. humanitarian ·noun one who is actively concerned in promoting the welfare of his kind; a philanthropist.
4. humanitarian ·adj pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of christ's nature.
5. humanitarian ·noun one who limits the sphere of duties to human relations and affections, to the exclusion or disparagement of the religious or spiritual.
6. humanitarian ·adj content with right affections and actions toward man; ethical, as distinguished from religious; believing in the perfectibility of man's nature without supernatural aid.