subhuman

About 0.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Less than human. As asserted of humans.

   A secret to Nazi power was that anyone from the ingroup could be turned upon and labeled as subhuman scum when some alleged Jewish ancestry was suddenly "discovered".

2. adjective As asserted of humans.

   A secret to Nazi power was that anyone from the ingroup could be turned upon and labeled as subhuman scum when some alleged Jewish ancestry was suddenly "discovered".

3. adjective As asserted of animals.

   We say dolphin intelligence is subhuman; I suspect dolphins say our intelligence is subdolphin.

4. noun Any sentient creature that is subhuman.
5. noun A man who ranks at the bottom percentile or decile of SMV; a truecel

Similar words

infrahuman unfit inhuman inhumane degrading draconian abhuman subanimate humanless unfleshed

Often followed by

primates and species conditions primate level animals or creatures

Word family

subhumans