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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | characteristic of people |
| Synonyms: | animal, anthropoid, anthropological, anthropomorphic, biped, bipedal, civilized, creatural, ethnologic, ethological, fallible, fleshly, forgivable, hominal, hominid, hominine, humanistic, individual, mortal, personal, vulnerable |
| Notes: | a human is a person while being humane means characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion |
| Antonyms: | immortal, inhuman, unmanly |
| Main Entry: | altruistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unselfish |
| Synonyms: | Robin Hood, all heart, benevolent, big*, big-hearted, bleeding heart, charitable, considerate, generous, good, good scout, human, humane, humanitarian, kind, magnanimous, openhanded, philanthropic, self-sacrificing |
| Antonyms: | selfish, unsacrificing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | being |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animate object |
| Synonyms: | animal, beast, body, conscious thing, creature, entity, human, human being, individual, living thing, mortal, organism, person, personage, soul, thing |
| Antonyms: | abstract, inanimate |
| Main Entry: | bodily |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning animate structure |
| Synonyms: | actual, animal, carnal, corporal, corporeal, fleshly, gross, human, material, natural, normal, organic, physical, sensual, somatic, substantial, tangible, unspiritual |
| Antonyms: | mental, soulful, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | body |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human being |
| Synonyms: | being, creature, human, individual, mortal, party, person, personage, soul |
| Antonyms: | abstract, concept, fantasy, immateriality, inanimate, thought |
| Main Entry: | corporal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bodily, physical |
| Synonyms: | anatomical, carnal, corporeal, fleshly, fleshy, gross, human, material, objective, phenomenal, sensible, somatic, substantial, tangible |
| Antonyms: | cerebral, immaterial, intangible, mental, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | corporeal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bodily, physical |
| Synonyms: | anatomical, carnal, corporal, fleshly, fleshy, human, material, mortal, objective, phenomenal, sensible, somatic, substantial, tangible |
| Antonyms: | cerebral, immaterial, intangible, mental, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | earthly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physically concerning land or its inhabitants |
| Synonyms: | alluvial, carnal, corporeal, geotic, global, human, in all creation, material, mortal, mundane, nonspiritual, physical, profane, secular, subastral, sublunary, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terraqueous, terrene, terrestrial, uncelestial, under the sun, unspiritual, worldly |
| Notes: | earthy is 'similar to earth; hearty' or 'coarse, vulgar' while earthly is 'pertaining to human existence on earth'; earthen means 'made of earth or clay' |
| Antonyms: | heavenly, immaterial, spiritual, unearthly |
| Main Entry: | fallible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | able or prone to err |
| Synonyms: | careless, deceptive, errable, errant, erring, faulty, frail, heedless, human, ignorant, imperfect, in question, liable, mortal, questionable, uncertain, unreliable, untrustworthy, weak |
| Notes: | fallacious means intended to deceive; fallible means liable to make a mistake or to be inaccurate or erroneous; false means not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality, or deliberately deceptive, or not genuine or real |
| Antonyms: | certain, correct, definite, infallible, perfect, reliable, strong, sure, unerring |
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