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anthropomorphic
English
Etymology
From anthropo- +? -morphic.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?n'thr?-p?-môr?f?k
- IPA(key): /æn???p??m??f?k/
- IPA(key): [?æ?n?????p??m???f??k]
- Rhymes: -??(r)f?k
Adjective
anthropomorphic (not comparable)
- Having the form of a human
- (of animals, inanimate objects, and non-human entities) Given attributes of human beings.
- 1909, The Quarterly Review, p. 124:
- The mystic is one to whom the unitive, pantheistic, or at least the panentheistic, aspects of the divinity are as congenial as the deistic, polytheistic, and anthropomorphic aspects are to the institutional mind.
- 1909, The Quarterly Review, p. 124:
Derived terms
- anthropomorphically
Translations
See also
- anthropomorphism
- anthropologic
- theriomorphic
Anagrams
- captorhinomorph
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anthropoid
English
Etymology
anthropo- +? -oid
Adjective
anthropoid (comparative more anthropoid, superlative most anthropoid)
- having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance
- (anatomy, in pelvimetry) Of the pelvis, having an anteroposterior diameter equal or exceeding the transverse diameter.
- having characteristics of an ape
Translations
Noun
anthropoid (plural anthropoids)
- An anthropoid animal.
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 1
- The tribe of anthropoids over which Kerchak ruled with an iron hand and bared fangs, numbered some six or eight families, each family consisting of an adult male with his females and their young, numbering in all some sixty or seventy apes.
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 1
Translations
See also
- humanoid
Further reading
- anthropoid at OneLook Dictionary Search
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