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(r)fɪk

Adjective

anthropomorphic (not comparable)

1. Having the form of a human
2. (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

• Czech: antropomorfní
• Danish: antropomorf (da)
• Dutch: antropomorfisch
• Esperanto: homforma
• Finnish: antropomorfinen (fi), antropomorfistinen
• French: anthropomorphe (fr)
• Galician: antropomorfo
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• German: anthropomorph (de)
• Greek: ανθρωπόμορφος (el) m (anthropómorfos)
• Portuguese: antropomórfico (pt)
• Russian: антропомо́рфный (ru) (antropomórfnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: antropomorfan (sh)
• Slovak: antropomorfný
• 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)
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• Greek: ανθρωπομορφικός (el) m (anthropomorfikós)
• Occitan: antropomorfic
• Portuguese: antropomórfico (pt)
• Russian: антропомо́рфный (ru) (antropomórfnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: antropomorfan (sh)
• Spanish: antropomorfo (es)

See also

• anthropomorphism
• anthropologic
• theriomorphic

Anagrams

• captorhinomorph