subhuman
[sʌbˈhjuːmən]
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.38 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A man who ranks at the bottom percentile or decile of SMV; a truecel
Example Sentences
- "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"."
- "We say dolphin intelligence is subhuman; I suspect dolphins say our intelligence is subdolphin."
- "In the belief system of his day, chimpanzees were described as subhuman and asserted to be incapable of feeling pain."
- "Near-synonym: nonperson"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- Latin hūmānusbor. Old French umain Middle French humainbor. Middle English humayne English human English subhuman From sub- + human.