Human

Word HUMAN
Character 5
Hyphenation hu man
Pronunciations /ˈhjuː.mən/

Definitions and meanings of "Human"

What do we mean by human?

A member of the primate genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens, distinguished from other apes by a large brain and the capacity for speech. noun

A person. noun

Of, relating to, or characteristic of humans. adjective

Having or showing those positive aspects of nature and character regarded as distinguishing humans from other animals. adjective

Subject to or indicative of the weaknesses, imperfections, and fragility associated with humans. adjective

Having the form of a human. adjective

Made up of humans. adjective

In geology, noting the period of the later beds of the Post-tertiary or Quaternary series (the recent, alluvial, and post-glacial periods).

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of man or of mankind; having the qualities or attributes of man: as, human life or nature; a human being; human shape.

Pertaining to the sphere, nature, or faculties of man; relative or proper to mankind; mundane; secular; not divine: as, human knowledge, wisdom, or science; human affairs.

In astrology, a sign of the zodiac corresponding to a constellation having for its figure a human being. The human signs are Gemini, Virgo, Aquarius, and the first half of Sagittarius. Synonyms Human, etc. See humane.

A human being; a member of the family of mankind. noun

Mars, Mars (said he), thou plague of men, smear'd with the dust and bloud noun

A human being. noun

Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man adjective

Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives. adjective

Having the nature or attributes of a human being. adjective

A human being, whether man, woman or child. noun

Having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings adjective

Relating to a person adjective

A human being, whether man, woman or child.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Human

The word "human" in example sentences

Labeld them as “human weeds” “reckless breeders” “spawning..human beings who never should have beenborn”. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Labeld them as “human weeds” “reckless breeders” “spawning..human beings who never should have been born”. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(The passage from Diogenes quoted in the previous section, according to which Pyrrho held “that human beings do everything by convention and habit” is not necessarily in conflict with this; by ˜human beings™ Pyrrho might have meant ordinary human beings, among whom he would not have included himself.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

Oh wait, he didn't mean that the broad sweeping claims are that human CO2 causes global warming and or that the ulterior motives are political power, prestige and funding, which can only be attached to *human* caused warming. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

Once again see my much earlier comments re: Bicentennial man, if memory serves about why human and human+ AIs are less useful than they might seem. ❋ Unknown (2005)

"How human, how lusciously _human_!" he exclaimed. ❋ Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1918)

It is from this point of observation that our humour is suddenly made aware of the startling absurdity of human institution; and not only of _human_ institution; for it is made aware also of the absurdity of the whole fantastic scheme of this portentous universe. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)

If people do anything that is generally called "immoral," they will excuse themselves on the grounds of human nature; they will say: "After all, _human nature being what it is_, you must expect this, that and the other kind of licence and immorality"; and to say that morality, real morality, can only be based on the realities of human nature will therefore sound to many of you the wildest kind of paradox. ❋ Unknown (1916)

Women, difficult as some people find it to believe, are human beings; and because women are so, they want work, and interest, and love -- both given and received -- and children, and, in short, the satisfaction of every _human_ need. ❋ Unknown (1916)

NATURAL phenomenon of human life brings us to the scientifical source of ethics and I prove that the so-called “highest ideals of humanity” have nothing of “sentimentalism” or of the “_super_natural” in them, but are exclusively the _fulfilment_ of the _natural laws_ for the _human class of life_. ❋ Alfred Korzybski (1914)

But if one is forced, or wishes to say, as some do, “so far as human frailty permits, ” let every man interpret that phrase as a plain negative, that is, “I do not promise chastity”; for “human frailty does not allow men to live an unmarried life, ” but only “angelic fortitude and celestial virtue. ❋ Unknown (1909)

I saw them plainly and noted, now I came to examine them more calmly, that they were very much larger than human, and indeed that something in their appearance proclaimed them to be _not human_ at all. ❋ Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev (1895)

I find an agreement that swallows up all conceivable dissents; in the whole world I hardly get, to my spoken human word, any other word of response which is authentically _human. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

For it was the doctrine of his own school, and 'the first human principle' taught in it, that men who act without reference to that distinctly _human_ aim, without that _manly_ consideration and ❋ Delia Bacon (1835)

We can say, for example, that Cicero is Tully, in the sense that he is identical with Tully; that Cicero's finger is Cicero, in the sense that it is part of the whole that is Cicero; that Cicero is his body, in the sense that he is constituted by his body; and that Cicero is human, in the sense that he falls under the kind human and the general term ˜human™ is correctly predicable of him. ❋ Fraser, Chris (2009)

(property), since a proprium is included in the definition of a subject, as in ˜a human being is able to laugh™, where the term ˜human being™ is included in the definition of the predicate ˜able to laugh™. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Just so, human beings have certain animal properties — autonomous mobility, for example, or physical appetites — but humans have other properties or propensities — ethical sense, for example, logical sense, inventiveness, progressiveness — properties or propensities of higher dimensionality, level, or type — and it is these propensities and powers that make human beings _human_ and _not_ animal. ❋ Alfred Korzybski (1914)

_human_ type marked by a great step in brain-development; and second that the passage from the humanoid to the human was probably associated with _a return to mother earth_. ❋ J. Arthur Thomson (1897)

They all said that he had seemed to esteem one baby as good as another, and that he was surprised that his wife was not consoled for the loss of her own child because he took it into his head to go and toll off the Yerby baby from his father's half-brothers "ez war movin 'away an' war glad enough ter get rid o 'one head o' human stock ter kerry, though, _bein human_, they oughter been ashamed ter gin him away like a puppy-dog, or an extry cat, all hands consarned." ❋ Mary Noailles Murfree (1886)

_slave-market of New Orleans_ -- the place where human bodies -- I might almost say _human souls_ -- were bought and sold! ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

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