human Definition

human
adj

1. Referring or belonging to people.

Example: human weakness
2. Having or showing the qualities and limitations of people, especially the weaknesses, as opposed to God, animals or machines.

Thesaurus: natural, fallible, susceptible, vulnerable, mortal, fleshly.
3. Having or showing the better qualities of people, eg in being kind, thoughtful, etc.

Thesaurus: compassionate, humane, considerate, kindly, reasonable.

noun

1. A human being.

Derivative: humanness
noun

See also humanity.

Etymology: 14c as humayne; 17c as human: from French humain, from Latin from homo man; by 18c the forms human and humane began to be differentiated and restricted to the senses in which they are now formed.