Humanitarian Definition

hyo͝o-mănĭ-târē-ən
humanitarians
noun
humanitarians
A person devoted to promoting the welfare of humanity, esp. through the elimination of pain and suffering; philanthropist.
Webster's New World

An adherent of humanitarianism.

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Helping humanity.
Webster's New World
Showing concern for the welfare of humanity, especially in acting to improve the living conditions of impoverished people.
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Being a situation in which many human lives are in danger of harm or death.
The drought caused a humanitarian crisis.
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Of humanitarianism.
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Other Word Forms of Humanitarian

Noun

Singular:
humanitarian
Plural:
humanitarians

Origin of Humanitarian

  • Coined around 1820, from humanity +‎ -arian.

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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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