What Is a Synonym for Mensch?

What word is opposite of mensch?

The opposite of a mensch is an unmensch (meaning: an utterly cruel or evil person). According to Leo Rosten, the Yiddish maven and author of The Joys of Yiddish, mensch is "someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character.

How do you use the word mensch?

If nothing else, I want to go out, I want to die like a man, like a mensch, like a good person. She is a lucky girl to have had such a mensch for a dad, and to learn about it, perhaps later than sooner.