subhuman🔊

(offensive) Lacking characteristics of a human in a way judged to be less than human by some value judgment, opinion, or belief system {{ng|(as for example an anthropocentric view of nonhuman primates or a Nazi view of various human outgroups)}}.

As tendentiously asserted of humans.

As anthropocentrically asserted of nonhuman animals, especially in centuries past.

(offensive) Any sentient creature, especially a humanoid one, which is less than human by some value judgment, opinion, or belief system {{ng|(as for example an anthropocentric view of nonhuman primates or a Nazi view of various human outgroups)}}. +