adjective
- below the level of human beings; less than human in development, intelligence, or moral capacity
Usage: formal; sometimes considered offensive when applied to people
Examples
- The philosopher argued that certain behaviors were infrahuman in nature.
- Early anthropologists mistakenly classified some groups as infrahuman.
- The study examined infrahuman species and their cognitive abilities.
- Critics condemned the regime’s infrahuman treatment of prisoners.
- The research focused on infrahuman primates and their social structures.
- Such infrahuman conditions were deemed unacceptable by international observers.