NONHUMAN Synonyms: 12 Similar and Opposite Words

nonhuman

adjective

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as in inhuman

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Recent Examples of nonhuman The data available for these vaccine candidates varies; some do not have animal testing data, while others have had promising findings in nonhuman primates, but clinical-grade material for testing in humans is not yet available. — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 6 June 2026 To Crowley and Dixit, their multispecies map is a natural extension of this worldview by identifying places meaningful to Penryn’s nonhuman residents and visitors. — Literary Hub, 11 June 2026 The division houses secret evidence of UAPs and nonhuman visitations to Earth dating back to the Nixon administration. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2026 If wanting to ascribe feelings to the nonhuman world is an anthropocentric crime, the opposite—failure to ascribe feelings to animals, or to respond creatively to plants—seems much worse, entailing an inert, clockwork universe of mechanistic automata, in which humans are the only conscious actors. — Jenny Odell, Longreads, 2 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for nonhuman

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Microsoft noted last month that its bumper crop of patches—which almost reached the current record—was the result of AI’s ability to automatically ferret out security vulnerabilities at inhuman speeds.

— Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 13 June 2026
Some combination of its audio quality, breathiness, cadence, and intonation just hits me as squarely inhuman.

— Ruben Circelli, PC Magazine, 8 June 2026

Definition of inhuman

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It’s equipped with about 20 feet (6 meters) of solar panels and a trio of robotic arms designed to grab Swift.

— Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
The nation has put people on the moon, helped build and operate a long-running space station in low Earth orbit (LEO) and sent fleets of robotic explorers to many corners of the solar system — and even beyond it, into interstellar space.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 3 July 2026

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So, yeah, there are Muslim terrorists, but they are also shown as people with lives and interests and not subhuman villains, which, umm, could’ve been worse.

— Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 30 July 2025
Yes, but: They were largely treated as subhuman and even lynched across the U.S. Here are five legal challenges that proved pivotal in demanding equality.

— Shawna Chen, Axios, 22 May 2025

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