abhuman
English
Etymology
From ab- + humanCategory:English terms prefixed with ab-#HUMAN.
Adjective
abhuman (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#ABHUMANCategory:English adjectives#ABHUMANCategory:English uncomparable adjectives#ABHUMANCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ABHUMANCategory:Pages with entries#ABHUMANCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ABHUMAN
- (chiefly science fictionCategory:en:Science fiction#ABHUMAN) Having some human characteristics, but others which are alien or monstrous; partially human. [from 20th c.]
- 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 279:
- You're a morbid abhuman bastard, Holmes…where were you when they built Treblinka and Dachau?Category:English terms with quotations#ABHUMAN
Noun
abhuman (plural abhumans)Category:English lemmas#ABHUMANCategory:English nouns#ABHUMANCategory:English countable nouns#ABHUMANCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ABHUMANCategory:Pages with entries#ABHUMANCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ABHUMAN
- (science fictionCategory:en:Science fiction#ABHUMAN) A partially human creature.
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