anthropoidal

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   resembling apes

   Synonymsanthropoidapelike

   Similarnonhuman

Questions about anthropoidal

What does anthropoidal mean?

anthropoidal means "resembling apes".

How many syllables are in anthropoidal?

anthropoidal has 4 syllables: an-thro-poi-dal. The stress falls on "thro".

What is another word for anthropoidal?

Close synonyms include anthropoid, apelike. 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 anthropoidal a common word?

anthropoidal 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.