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humanitarian has 6 distinct synonyms spread across 3 of its 4 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms
marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare
“a humane physician”
1 of the 4 recorded senses carries no synonym, antonym or related term, so it is not shown above. Every sense, with its definition and examples, is on the full entry for humanitarian.
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for humanitarian come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.