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adj. Characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion: a humane judge.

adj. Marked by an emphasis on humanistic values and concerns: a humane education.

adj. Having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate.

adj. Pertaining to branches of learning concerned with human affairs or the humanities, especially classical literature or rhetoric.

adj. Obsolete spelling of human.

adj. Pertaining to man; human.

adj. Having the feelings and inclinations creditable to man; having a disposition to treat other human beings or animals with kindness; kind; benevolent.

adj. Humanizing; exalting; tending to refine.

Of or pertaining to man; human. See human, a.

Profane; secular. See human, a., 2.

Having the feelings and inclinations proper to man; having tenderness, compassion, and a disposition to treat other human beings and the lower animals with kindness; kind; benevolent.

Tending to humanize or refine: applied to the elegant or polite branches of literature, especially philology, rhetoric, poetry, and the study of the ancient classics. See humanity, 5.

Synonyms Humane, Merciful; tender, tender-hearted, kind-hearted, compassionate, sympathetic. Humane differs from the ordinary use of merciful in that it expresses active endeavors to find and relieve suffering, and especially to prevent it, while merciful expresses the disposition to spare one the suffering which might be inflicted. The good Samaritan was humane; Shylock should have been merciful; the Royal Humane Society; a merciful judge.

adj. marked or motivated by concern with the alleviation of suffering

adj. showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement

adj. pertaining to or concerned with the humanities

"Lyman focuses on the term humane meat, asking if killing can be humane and asserting that the only reason we eat meat is because we have an addiction to fat."

humanitarian    human-centred    humanistic    human-centered    humanist    child-centered    civilised    civilized   

inhumane    inhuman   

humanist    human   

humanely   

gentle    tender    mild    compassionate    sympathizing    benevolent    merciful    kind    human    humanizing   

Alane    Aquitaine    Ayn    Bahrain    Biscayne    Blaine    Cain    Chain    Champagne    Champaign   

benevolent    honorable    prudent    generous    enlighten    courageous    rational    compassionate    considerate