anthropomorphic
Americanadjective
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ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human, especially to a deity: Children especially love anthropomorphic tales where talking animal friends have exciting adventures.
Much has been written on the anthropomorphic qualities of the God of the Hebrew Scriptures.
Children especially love anthropomorphic tales where talking animal friends have exciting adventures.
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resembling or made to resemble a human form.
an anthropomorphic carving.
adjective
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of or relating to anthropomorphism
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resembling the human form
Other Word Forms
- anthropomorph noun
- anthropomorphically adverb
- anthropomorphously adverb
Etymology
Origin of anthropomorphic
Example Sentences
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Animated Australian sensation “Bluey” has arrived in Disneyland, and the titular anthropomorphic pastel-coated canine has come ready to play.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026
Other anthropomorphic measures -- including waist circumference, waist-to-height ratio, and waist-to-hip ratio -- can provide additional insight by distinguishing fat mass from muscle and identifying abdominal fat linked to disease risk.
From Science Daily • Dec. 31, 2025
After all, AI-generated videos of anthropomorphic animals and factually incorrect chatbot responses are not what AI is about in the long run, Chan said.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 29, 2025
There’s an obvious objection to all this: It sounds as if we’re naively personifying a giant math problem, mistaking statistical patterns for sentience—falling for the oldest anthropomorphic error in the book.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025
Serapis was an amalgam of Apis, the native bull god, and Osiris, the anthropomorphic lord of the dead—an instant “designer god” fashioned by the Ptolemies to give Greeks and Egyptians a deity in common.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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