humane

About 3.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate.

   It is no longer considered humane to perform vivisection on research animals.

2. adjective Pertaining to branches of learning concerned with human affairs or the humanities, especially classical literature or rhetoric.
3. adjective Obsolete spelling of human.

Similar words

compassionate merciful humanitarian civilized humanistic humanist kind painless human-centered caring

Often followed by

and society treatment than man to in letters association

Word family

humanely humaneness humanenesses humaner humanest