Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having human characteristics or form.
- n. A being having human form: "humanoids from some far-flung planet” ( Robert Brustein).
- n. See android.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having the appearance or characteristics of a human.
- n. A being having the appearance or characteristics of a human.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an automaton that resembles a human being
Etymologies
- human + -oid (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The term humanoid describes a general conformation to the traits of humanity, but implies an expansion of criteria to possibly include other species than homo sapiens sapiens.”
“Thank god making him humanoid is a bad idea but he does looks awesome (Kinda like apocalypse)”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Galactus, our big blender in the sky!
“That’s why most of the time they go around in humanoid form.”
“(Unless it’s one of those scripted “they’re all asleep if you make Stealth checks” rooms.) No humanoid is ever encumbered (nor, seemingly, do they carry about the food and water and supplies that they likely would need to survive if they were a PC).”
“On a slight tangent, according to the Transformers Encyclopedia (yes, I’m THAT big of a nerd), the robots with tiny alternate forms [Megatron, Soundwave ftw] are basically hollow in humanoid form.”
“The appearance of these Star People is what is known as humanoid feline entities or paschats.”
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“The Series 800 combat chassis when not intended for infiltrator work and fielded without an organic infiltration coating is more properly identified as a humanoid hunter-killer (HK) and are designated with a shorter 4 character alpha numeric code.”
Roland Kickinger Filling in for Schwarzenegger in Terminator Salvation « FirstShowing.net
“Good interview, but I was wonder about this bit: "For instance, SF created the idea of humanoid robots that would be jacks-of-all-trades, and largely ignored the idea of specialty robots that only did one thing, be it weld auto frames, aid bomb disposal teams, or bake bread on kitchen table tops.”
“If you can reason like a humanoid, which is not likely from neocons, then you will be taken seriously.”
“Beside the computer, a clear cube held a 3-D image of q standing arm-in-arm with several aliens, only one of whom Harry could properly identify as humanoid.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘humanoid’.
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
tachyon, mecha, dropship, wetware, meatspace, nanobot, cloned meat, asteroid mining, hyperdrive, wormhole, parallel universe, distributed intel... and 464 more...
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-oids
words taking the suffix -oid. because i wanted to use the word zomboid as in "having the likeness of a zombie". and yes, flavenoids is adopted. we'll tell her when she's older...
zomboid, rhomboid, planetoid, factoid, humanoid, asteroid, trapezoid, alkaloid, android, voidoid, woidies, metroid and 22 more...
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Humanoids
Magical, mechanical, or medical. All man-made.
golem, android, humanoid, Frankenstein, inukshuk, bioroid, replicant, biorobot, automaton, gynoid, droid, cyborg and 12 more...
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bkerr's Words
wyrd, absinthe, homunculus, zorkmid, informon, decider, diachronic, frak, hwæt, feldercarb, yawp, dogfooding and 540 more...
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Fun Words
Words that have funny meanings or are just fun to say.
kumquat, chimichanga, sarsparilla, rutabaga, rumpus, flummox, encrusted, prestidigitation, pomegranate, preposterous, dentiloquist, sepulchre and 323 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1696 more...
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Unusual Vocabulary from Network (1976)
Rare words and uses of words from the film "Network", just because I love the dialogue so much. I wish I could find a version of the screenplay to see what gems didn't make the cut. (I'm just going...
precipitate, mandarin, ecumenical, hobgoblin, unconscionable, Savonarola, messianic, top brass, auspicatory, oraculate, jeremiad, sibilant and 30 more...
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