anthropomorphous

1. 1.

   suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things

   Synonymsanthropomorphichumanlike

   Similarhuman

Questions about anthropomorphous

What does anthropomorphous mean?

anthropomorphous means "suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things".

How many syllables are in anthropomorphous?

anthropomorphous has 5 syllables: an-thro-po-mor-phous. The stress falls on "po".

What is another word for anthropomorphous?

Close synonyms include anthropomorphic, humanlike. 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 anthropomorphous a common word?

anthropomorphous 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.