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