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anthropomorphic

[ an-thruh-puh-mawr-fik ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human, especially to a deity: Children especially love anthropomorphic tales where talking animal friends have exciting adventures.
Much has been written on the anthropomorphic qualities of the God of the Hebrew Scriptures.
Children especially love anthropomorphic tales where talking animal friends have exciting adventures.
resembling or made to resemble a human form:
an anthropomorphic carving.

anthropomorphic

/ ˌænθrəpəˈmɔːfɪk /

First recorded in 1820–30; anthropo- + -morphic

Totes, T-shirts, and an anthropomorphic stuffed rat are for sale at the gift shop.

The children of The Cat in the Hat are left in the care of a massive anthropomorphic feline.

The rainbow which incloses the picture on three sides is not the anthropomorphic rainbow.

He would find that the modern statues by famous artists were beautiful anthropomorphic works in marble or in gold and ivory.

To vindicate his spirituality the anthropomorphic passages in the Koran must be understood metaphorically.

The Gentiles make use of the anthropomorphic expressions in the Bible to annoy us, charging us with believing in a corporeal God.

In the advance from man to the anthropomorphic god, the hero would surely already have been encountered.

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