- characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people and animals, especially for the suffering or distressed: humane treatment of prisoners.
- acting in a manner that causes the least harm to people or animals: humane trapping of stray pets.
- of or relating to humanistic studies.
- characterized by kindness, mercy, sympathy, etc
- inflicting as little pain as possible
- civilizing or liberal (esp in the phrases humane studies, humane education)
