anthropoid

Other forms of anthropoid

plural

anthropoids·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anthropoid

What does anthropoid mean?

anthropoid means "person who resembles a nonhuman primate". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anthropoid?

anthropoid has 3 syllables: an-thro-poid. The stress falls on "an".

What is another word for anthropoid?

Close synonyms include ape, anthropoidal, apelike, manlike. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anthropoid a common word?

anthropoid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.