Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having or suggesting human form and appearance.
- adj. Ascribing human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to things not human, such as inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Anthropomorphic; anthropoid in form: as, an anthropomorphous ape.
Wiktionary
- adj. resembling a human being
- adj. describing an animal or inanimate object using human characteristics; see anthropomorphism
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having the figure of, or resemblance to, a man.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things
Examples
“I didn't light that candle or dedicate my book to Tatiana out of anthropomorphous sentimentality.”
“The main characters are fittingly namedHorse,Indian or “Indien”, and Cowboy, a trio of unlikely roommates in the shape of anthropomorphous, waxy toys.”
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“At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated.”
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“Love is... eerily anthropomorphous flesh-colored shapes staring blankly out with their dead eyes.”
“At the same time the anthropomorphous apes … will no doubt be exterminated.”
“The orang-outang is the most anthropomorphous of the ape tribe, all of which are strictly frugivorous.”
“Among the ancestor of the last, he searches for the common progenitors, from which again two branches started -- on the one hand the ignoble branches of the catarrhine species of apes, always remaining lower in {44} development, to which also belong the anthropomorphous apes, like the orang outang and gibbon in Asia, the gorilla and chimpanzee in Africa; on the other hand, that branch which represents the ascent of animals to man.”
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“I remarked that as long as we live in the narrow sphere of our anthropomorphous and unavoidable "travelling companions," we build everything on quicksands and in a hostile medium.”
“Though they have no conception of one supreme being, their anthropomorphous deities are numerous and strikingly democratic.”
“This is all the more likely with a habit like weeping, which must have been acquired since the period when man branched off from the common progenitor of the genus Homo and of the non-weeping anthropomorphous apes.”
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