Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - humane
Связанные словари
Humane
humane
adjective Etymology: Middle English humain Date: circa 1500 1. marked by compassion, sympathy, or consideration for humans or animals 2. characterized by or tending to broad humanistic culture ; humanistic ~ studies • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun
Рейтинг статьи:
См. в других словарях
1.
adj. 1 benevolent, compassionate. 2 inflicting the minimum of pain. 3 (of a branch of learning) tending to civilize or confer refinement. Phrases and idioms humane killer an instrument for the painless slaughter of animals. Derivatives humanely adv. humaneness n. Etymology: var. of HUMAN, differentiated in sense in the 18th c. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
2.
прил. 1) общ. человечный, гуманный humane treatment — гуманное обращение a man of humane character — гуманный человек See: humanistic 2) мет. гуманитарный humane studies — занятия гуманитарными науками ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
3.
1. человечный, гуманный humane philosophy —- гуманная философия a man of humane character —- гуманный человек 2. гуманитарный humane studies —- занятия гуманитарными науками ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
4.
Society общество спасания утопающих HUMANE adj. 1) гуманный человечный - Humane Society 2) гуманитарный Syn: benign, charitable, compassionate, human, humanitarian, philanthropic, sympathetic Ant: cruel, hardhearted, parsimonious, selfish, unkind ...Англо-русский словарь
5.
1. Humane people act in a kind, sympathetic way towards other people and animals, and try to do them as little harm as possible. In the mid-nineteenth century, Dorothea Dix began to campaign for humane treatment of the mentally ill. ADJ • humanely Our horse had to be humanely destroyed after breaking his right foreleg. ADV: ADV with v 2. Humane values and societies encourage people to act in a kind and sympathetic way towards others, even towards people they do not agree with or like. ...the humane values of socialism... ADJ ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
6.
~ adj treating people or animals in a way that is not cruel and causes them as little pain or suffering as possible (Farmers will be asked to consider more humane ways of transporting livestock.) - humanely adv (- opposite inhumane) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
7.
- c.1450, variant of human, used interchangeably with it until early 18c., when it began to be a distinct word with sense of "having qualities befitting human beings." But inhuman is still the opposite of humane. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
Вопрос-ответ:
Похожие слова
Ссылка для сайта или блога:
Ссылка для форума (bb-код):
Самые популярные термины
1 | 1644 | |
2 | 1488 | |
3 | 1246 | |
4 | 1245 | |
5 | 1135 | |
6 | 1093 | |
7 | 1029 | |
8 | 1015 | |
9 | 1014 | |
10 | 980 | |
11 | 978 | |
12 | 949 | |
13 | 936 | |
14 | 920 | |
15 | 855 | |
16 | 818 | |
17 | 813 | |
18 | 795 | |
19 | 784 | |
20 | 752 |