anthropomorphic

English

WOTD – 25 February 2006

Etymology

From anthropo- +‎ -morphic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌænθɹəʊpəʊˈmɔːfɪk/
• (US) enPR: ăn'thrə-pə-môr′fĭk, IPA^(key): /ˌænθɹəpəˈmɔɹfɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)fɪk

Adjective

anthropomorphic (not comparable)

1. Having the form of a human.

   Synonym: anthropomorphous

2. (of anything non-human) 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
• anthropornography
• antianthropomorphic
• deanthropomorphic
• nonanthropomorphic
• pseudoanthropomorphic
• unanthropomorphic

Translations

having the form of a person

Azerbaijani: antropomorf Catalan: antropomorf, antropomòrfic Chinese: Mandarin: 拟人的 Czech: antropomorfní (cs) Danish: antropomorf (da) Dutch: antropomorfisch (nl) Esperanto: homforma Finnish: antropomorfinen (fi), antropomorfistinen French: anthropomorphe (fr) Galician: antropomorfo (gl) German: anthropomorph (de) Greek: ανθρωπόμορφος (el) m (anthropómorfos) Ancient: ἀνθρωπόμορφος (anthrōpómorphos) Indonesian: antropomorfis Kazakh: антропоморф (antropomorf) Kazakh: антропоморф (antropomorf) Malay: antropomorfik Manx: antrapoamorfagh Portuguese: antropomórfico (pt) Romanian: antropomorf (ro) 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 (nl) Esperanto: homforma Finnish: antropomorfinen (fi), antropomorfistinen French: anthropomorphe (fr) German: anthropomorph (de), vermenschlicht (de) Greek: ανθρωπομορφικός (el) m (anthropomorfikós) Indonesian: antropomorfis Italian: antropomorfo (it) Malay: antropomorfik Manx: antrapoamorfagh Occitan: antropomorfic Polish: antropomorficzny (pl) 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