Anthropoid

Quick meaning: Anthropoid is an adjective meaning Having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Having characteristics of an ape.
2. An anthropoid animal.

Example Sentences

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

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.

“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.

Word Forms

• anthropoids

Synonyms for anthropoid

Depending on context, synonyms include manlike, nonhuman, apelike, ape, human.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include manlike, human, apelike, ape, nonhuman, anthropomorphological.

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