anthropomorphic

anthropomorphic

English

WOTD – 25 February 2006

Etymology

From anthropo- +‎ -morphic.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ăn'thrə-pə-môr′fĭk
• IPA^(key): /ænθɹɒpəˈmɔɹfɪk/

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  IPA^(key): [ˌæ̃n̪θɹ̠əpəˈmɔɹ̠fɪ̈k]
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)fɪk

Adjective

anthropomorphic (not comparable)

1. Having the form of a human.

   Synonym: anthropomorphous

2. (of animals, inanimate objects, and non-human entities) Having attributes or characteristics of a human being.
   • 1909, “The Quarterly Review”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 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 Czech: antropomorfní (cs) Danish: antropomorf (da) Dutch: antropomorfisch Esperanto: homforma Finnish: antropomorfinen (fi), antropomorfistinen French: anthropomorphe (fr) Galician: antropomorfo German: anthropomorph (de) Greek: ανθρωπόμορφος (el) m (anthropómorfos) Ancient: ἀνθρωπόμορφος (anthrōpómorphos) Manx: antrapoamorfagh Portuguese: antropomórfico (pt) Russian: антропомо́рфный (ru) (antropomórfnyj) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: антропомо̀рфан Roman: antropomòrfan (sh) Slovak: antropomorfný, antropomorfický Spanish: antropomorfo (es) Swedish: antropomorfisk Turkish: antropomorf, 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) Manx: antrapoamorfagh Occitan: antropomorfic Polish: antropomorficzny‎ Portuguese: antropomórfico (pt) Russian: антропомо́рфный (ru) (antropomórfnyj) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: антропомо̀рфан Roman: antropomòrfan (sh) Spanish: antropomorfo (es)

See also

• ailuromorphic
• anthropomorphism
• anthropologic
• theriomorphic

Anagrams

• captorhinomorph