not caring about the pain or problems of other people or animals; very cruel synonym callous(对待人或动物)残忍的,不人道的 inhumane treatment of animals/prisoners 对动物的残忍行为;对囚犯的非人对待
Oxford Collocations DictionaryInhumane is used with these nouns:- condition
- treatment
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘inhuman, brutal’): originally a variant of inhuman (rare after 1700); in modern use from in- ‘not’ + humane (the current sense dating from the early 19th cent.).