Associations to the word «Subhuman»

Wiktionary

SUBHUMAN, adjective. Less than human; lacking characteristics of a human.
SUBHUMAN, noun. Anything which is less than human.

Dictionary definition

SUBHUMAN, adjective. Less than human or not worthy of a human being; "treated natives as subhuman"; "a subhuman spectacle"; "the subhuman primates".
SUBHUMAN, adjective. Unfit for human beings; "subhuman conditions of life".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats