anthropomorphic

English

WOTD – 25 February 2006

Etymology

From anthropo- +‎ -morphic.

Pronunciation

enPR: ăn'thrə-pə-môr′fĭk
IPA^(key): /ænθɹɒpəˈmɔɹfɪk/
Rhymes: -ɔː(r)fɪk

Adjective

anthropomorphic (not comparable)

Having the form of a human
(of animals, inanimate objects, and non-human entities) Given attributes of human beings.
- 1909, The Quarterly Review, p. 124:
  The mystic is one to whom the unitive, pantheistic, or at least the panentheistic, aspects of the divinity are as congenial as the deistic, polytheistic, and anthropomorphic aspects are to the institutional mind.

Derived terms

anthropomorphically

Translations

having the form of a person

Catalan: antropomorf, antropomòrfic
Chinese:
Mandarin: 拟人的
Danish: antropomorf (da)
Dutch: antropomorfisch
Esperanto: homforma
Finnish: antropomorfinen (fi), antropomorfistinen
French: anthropomorphe (fr)
Galician: antropomorfo

German: anthropomorph (de)
Greek: ανθρωπόμορφος (el) m (anthropómorfos)
Portuguese: antropomórfico (pt)
Russian: антропомо́рфный (ru) (antropomórfnyj)
Serbo-Croatian: antropomorfan (sh)
Spanish: antropomorfo (es)
Swedish: antropomorfisk
Turkish: insansı (tr)

given human attributes

Catalan: antropomòrfic
Danish: antropomorf (da)
Dutch: antropomorfisch
Esperanto: homforma
Finnish: antropomorfinen (fi), antropomorfistinen
German: anthropomorph (de), vermenschlicht (de)

Greek: ανθρωπομορφικός (el) m (anthropomorfikós)
Occitan: antropomorfic
Portuguese: antropomórfico (pt)
Russian: антропомо́рфный (ru) (antropomórfnyj)
Serbo-Croatian: antropomorfan (sh)
Spanish: antropomorfo (es)

See also

Anagrams

captorhinomorph

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