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anthropomorphic

adjective as in manlike

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Major Paik works from the 1970s and ’80s include a garden dismally strewn with 49 TV sets and several delightful anthropomorphic sculptures made from lashed-together TVs.

There’s an anthropomorphic quality to them that seems natural at a street intersection.

The real amusement simply comes from chatting up the menagerie of anthropomorphic animals who are generally some combination of jaded, guarded and broken, with a touch of don’t-give-a-damn.

It is anthropomorphic, they argue, to say that other creatures experience feelings like compassion, even when their behavior appears — to our human eyes — to be impelled by it.

These appear to dance across transparent displays — and into such canvases as “Bluewalker,” whose shapes are less anthropomorphic but do suggest bodies in motion.

Totes, T-shirts, and an anthropomorphic stuffed rat are for sale at the gift shop.

The children of The Cat in the Hat are left in the care of a massive anthropomorphic feline.

The rainbow which incloses the picture on three sides is not the anthropomorphic rainbow.

He would find that the modern statues by famous artists were beautiful anthropomorphic works in marble or in gold and ivory.

To vindicate his spirituality the anthropomorphic passages in the Koran must be understood metaphorically.

The Gentiles make use of the anthropomorphic expressions in the Bible to annoy us, charging us with believing in a corporeal God.

In the advance from man to the anthropomorphic god, the hero would surely already have been encountered.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to anthropomorphic, such as: humanlike, anthropoid, anthropomorphous, and humanoid.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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