simious

American  

[sim-ee-uhs] / ˈsɪm i əs /

adjective

1. pertaining to or characteristic of apes or monkeys; simian.

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Other Word Forms

• simiousness noun
• subsimious adjective

Etymology

Origin of simious

1795–1805; < Latin sīmi ( a ) ape ( simian ) + -ous

Example Sentences

Here was native talent forming a channel for itself, in which perhaps it had better run freely, exercising originality, than labour with imitative and simious toil at the manufacture of ideal Art-Alepots.

From Project Gutenberg

Philosophy shows us 'twixt monkey and man One simious line in unbroken extendage; Development only since first it began— And chiefly in losing the caudal appendage.

From Project Gutenberg

The prophet Hud remonstrated; but his remonstrances went for nothing, and the indignant monarch and his courtiers suddenly found their visages simious, their tongues chattering, and their lower portions furnished with tails—a species of transformation, which, so far as regards visage and tongue, is supposed to be not unfrequent among courtiers to this day.

From Project Gutenberg

What, then, could better suit him than to compose a novel in which he might give full play to his simious humour, startle more hideously than ever his straighter-laced neighbours, defiantly defend his own character, and caricature whatever eccentric figure in the society around him might offer the most tempting butt for ridicule?

From Project Gutenberg

Good apes begot good apes, and at last when human intelligence stole like a late spring upon the mimicry of our semi- simious ancestry, the creature learnt how he could of his own forethought add extra-corporaneous limbs to the members of his own body, and become not only a vertebrate mammal, but a vertebrate machinate mammal into the bargain.

From Project Gutenberg