English-Italian translations for humane

Definition of humane

• Having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate
• Pertaining to branches of learning concerned with human affairs or the humanities, especially classical literature or rhetoric

Examples

• 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.

Related words

• humanely
• inhumane
• humaneness
• inhumanely
• humane medicine