Meaning

Having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance.
2. Having characteristics of an ape.
3. An anthropoid animal.

Example Sentences

“And I am sorry for the man she loves,” said the girl, “for he loves her. I never met him, but from what Jane tells me he must be a very wonderful person. It seems that he was born in an African jungle, and brought up by fierce, anthropoid apes.”

The origin and development of language led to the differentiation of man from all other forms of animal life. Without this form of thought-communication and preservation man would never have achieved any higher degree of cerebration than the anthropoid ape.

The tribe of anthropoids over which Kerchak ruled with an iron hand and bared fangs, numbered some six or eight families, each family consisting of an adult male with his females and their young, numbering in all some sixty or seventy apes.

Here and there a little group of shattered Indians marked where one of the anthropoids had turned to bay, and sold his life dearly.

Imagine for a moment that mankind, together with the printed and artistic lore of all the ages, were suddenly destroyed. Any new race of anthropoids which might arise would be in precisely the same position as the primitive races of mankind were in the days of Adam and Eve, and little better than the animals of to-day.

Word Forms

• more anthropoid
• most anthropoid
• anthropoids

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Use anthropoid when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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