Humanitarian Synonyms and Antonyms

hyo͝o-mănĭ-târē-ən
Concerned with human welfare and the alleviation of suffering
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. charitable
  2. compassionate
  3. human
  4. human-centered
  5. humane
  6. human-centred
  7. merciful
  8. humanist
  9. humanistic
Antonyms:
  1. inhumanitarian
  2. cruel
  3. ungiving
  4. uncompassionate
  5. inhumane
  6. egotistic
  7. egoistic
  8. selfish
Open-handed
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. philanthropic
  2. public-spirited
  3. altruistic

Words Related to Humanitarian

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. patron
  2. attitude
  3. kind
  4. darfur
  5. peacekeepe
  6. un
  7. kosovo
  8. human-rights
  9. afghanistan
  10. de-mining
  11. sudan
  12. disaster-relief

Humanitarian Sentence Examples

  • They were very kind; but I could not help feeling that they spoke more from a business than a humanitarian point of view.

  • On the humanitarian and liberal ideas making for emancipation we need not dwell, as they are self-evident.

  • We have seen, for example, that he was led to investigate the subject of logic because he found in attempting to advance his humanitarian schemes in politics an absence of that fundamental agreement which he recognized as the basis of scientific advance.

  • Her Spiridion, which was dedicated to him, Sept cardes de la lyre, Consuelo, and La Comtesse de Rudolstadt, were written under the Humanitarian inspiration.

  • Herzl believed that the humanitarian hopes which inspired men at the end of the 18th and during the larger part of the 19th centuries had failed.

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