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Theroid

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Bestial, resembling an animal..

Definitions by Sense

  1. Bestial, resembling an animal.
  2. Obsolete spelling of thyroid.

Example Sentences

1994, Chantal Zabus, Prospero′s Progeny Curses Back: Postcolonial, Postmodern, and Postpatriarchal Rewritings of The Tempest, Theo D′Haen, Hans Bertens (editors),Liminal Postmodernisms: The Postmodern, the (post-)Colonial, and the (post-)Feminist, page 119, Whatever Caliban′s ancestry may be, it remains that the West Indian Caliban is a poet whose poetic topography covers the whole of the Caribbean “trough” but whose harrowing experience of exile has turned him into a theroid monster.
There is a class of idiots which may justly be designated theroid, so like brutes are the members of it.
Some imbecile children, without being so markedly theroid as this, are incorrigibly mischievous, and often show a surprising amount of cunning in carrying out what they design.
Man can not have arisen except from some more theroid form zoologically, and hence also morphologically.
[…]a ſwelling of the two theroid glands, lying on each ſide of the wind-pipe,[…].

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Related Words

animalisticanimalishanimallyanimal-likebeastlikebestialcreaturelikereptilelikeanimallikecreaturishanimalesquereptilicboarlikeherpetoidbearlikerabbitishbeastishtigerlikebulllikedoggish

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What does theroid mean?

Theroid means Bestial, resembling an animal..

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1994, Chantal Zabus, Prospero′s Progeny Curses Back: Postcolonial, Postmodern, and Postpatriarchal Rewritings of The Tempest, Theo D′Haen, Hans Bertens (editors),Liminal Postmodernisms: The Postmodern, the (post-)Colonial, and the (post-)Feminist, page 119, Whatever Caliban′s ancestry may be, it remains that the West Indian Caliban is a poet whose poetic topography covers the whole of the Caribbean “trough” but whose harrowing experience of exile has turned him into a theroid monster.

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