• (British) IPA: /hjuːˈmeɪn/

humane (comparative humaner, superlative humanest)

1. Having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate.

   It is no longer considered humane to perform vivisection on research animals.

   As methods of execution go, beheading is more humane than drawing and quartering.

2. Pertaining to branches of learning concerned with human affairs or the humanities, especially classical literature or rhetoric.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, partition II, section 3, member 7:

     many divine precepts to counterpoise our hearts, special antidotes both in scriptures and humane authors, which who so will observe, shall purchase much ease and quietness unto himself.

3. Obsolete spelling of human#English|human

• mankindly

• inhuman, inhumane

• German: human, menschlich
• Portuguese: humano
• Russian: челове́чный
• Spanish: humano