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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of a lower order than humans; subhuman.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having attributes or qualities lower than the human in the scale of being: the opposite of superhuman.

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  • noun psychology A creature that is not (yet) at the level of understanding of a human being, such as a presymbolic child or an animal.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective belonging to a group below humans in evolutionary development

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infra- +‎ human

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