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anthropomorphic

[ an-thruh-puh-mawr-fik ]

adjective

  1. 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.

  2. resembling or made to resemble a human form:

    an anthropomorphic carving.



anthropomorphic

/ ˌænθrəpəˈmɔːfɪk /

adjective

  1. of or relating to anthropomorphism
  2. resembling the human form
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈanthropoˌmorph, noun
  • ˌanthropoˈmorphically, adverb
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Other Words From

  • an·thro·po·mor·phi·cal·ly an·thro·po·mor·phous·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of anthropomorphic1

First recorded in 1820–30; anthropo- + -morphic
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Example Sentences

Major Paik works from the 1970s and ’80s include a garden dismally strewn with 49 TV sets and several delightful anthropomorphic sculptures made from lashed-together TVs.

There’s an anthropomorphic quality to them that seems natural at a street intersection.

The real amusement simply comes from chatting up the menagerie of anthropomorphic animals who are generally some combination of jaded, guarded and broken, with a touch of don’t-give-a-damn.

It is anthropomorphic, they argue, to say that other creatures experience feelings like compassion, even when their behavior appears — to our human eyes — to be impelled by it.

These appear to dance across transparent displays — and into such canvases as “Bluewalker,” whose shapes are less anthropomorphic but do suggest bodies in motion.

Totes, T-shirts, and an anthropomorphic stuffed rat are for sale at the gift shop.

The children of The Cat in the Hat are left in the care of a massive anthropomorphic feline.

The rainbow which incloses the picture on three sides is not the anthropomorphic rainbow.

He would find that the modern statues by famous artists were beautiful anthropomorphic works in marble or in gold and ivory.

To vindicate his spirituality the anthropomorphic passages in the Koran must be understood metaphorically.

The Gentiles make use of the anthropomorphic expressions in the Bible to annoy us, charging us with believing in a corporeal God.

In the advance from man to the anthropomorphic god, the hero would surely already have been encountered.

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