Antonyms for subhuman
sʌbˈhyu mən; often -ˈyu-sub·hu·man

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1. subhumannoun

   Synonyms:
   lessperson, nonperson, Untermensch, troglodyte, neanderthal

2. subhumanadjective

   Less than human; lacking characteristics of a human.

   Synonyms:
   lessperson, nonperson, Untermensch, neanderthal, troglodyte

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1. subhumanadjective

   less than human or not worthy of a human being

   "treated natives as subhuman"; "a subhuman spectacle"; "the subhuman primates"

   Antonyms:
   divine, herculean, godlike, powerful, superhuman, fit

2. subhumanadjective

   unfit for human beings

   "subhuman conditions of life"

   Antonyms:
   fit, herculean, godlike, powerful, divine, superhuman

How to use subhuman in a sentence?

1. Eric Ambler:

   For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

2. Jonathan Greenblatt:

   Hitler's ideology, the Third Reich, was predicated on the idea that the Aryans, the Germans, were a master race and the Jews were a subhuman race. It was a racialized anti-Semitism, now that might not fit exactly or feel different than the way we think about race in 21st century America, where primarily it's about people of color, but throughout the Jewish people's history, they have been marginalized, they have been persecuted, they have been slaughtered, in large part because many people felt they were not just a different religion, but indeed a different race.

3. Jonathan Greenblatt:

   Well, Whoopi, there’s no question that the Holocaust was about race. That’s how the Nazis saw it as they perpetrated the systematic annihilation of the Jewish people across continents, across countries with deliberate and ruthless cruelty, you see, Hitler’s ideology, the Third Reich, was predicated on the idea that the Aryans, the Germans, were a ‘master race,’ and the Jews were a subhuman race. It was racialized anti-Semitism.

4. Matthew Caruana Galizia:

   They had an image of her as a witch, someone who was subhuman or nonhuman, they were made to hate her, so, now that they're seeing a human being they just don't know what to do. I think The Daphne Project has succeeded in that objective at least, and also because the journalists are taking up her investigations, that feels like a taste of justice.

5. Jonathan Greenblatt:

   Well, Whoopi, there’s no question that the Holocaust was about race. That’s how the Nazis saw it as they perpetrated the systematic annihilation of the Jewish people across continents, across countries with deliberate and ruthless cruelty, you see, Hitler’s ideology, the Third Reich, was predicated on the idea that the Aryans, the Germans, were a ‘master race,’ and the Jews were a subhuman race. It was racialized antisemitism.

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