human

1. 1.

   any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage

   Synonymshomomanhuman being

   Broaderhominid

   NarrowerworldHomo erectusHomo soloensisHomo habilisHomo sapiensNeandertal manRhodesian man

   Part ofgenus Homo

   Partsloinhuman bodybody hairmanehuman headfoot

Other forms of human

plural

humans·

comparative

humanner·

superlative

humannest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about human

What does human mean?

human means "characteristic of humanity". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in human?

human has 2 syllables: hu-man. The stress falls on "hu". In IPA it is /ˈhjumən/.

What is another word for human?

Close synonyms include homo, man, human being. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of human?

The recorded antonyms are nonhuman.

Is human a common word?

human is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with human?

4 words rhyme with human. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.