Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
adjective
- ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human, especially to a deity.
- resembling or made to resemble a human form: an anthropomorphic carving.
adjective
- shaped like a human being
- another word for anthropomorphic
adjective
- of or relating to anthropomorphism
- resembling the human form
1753, anglicization of Late Latin anthropomorphus “having human form,” from Greek anthropomorphos, from anthropos “human being” (see anthropo-) + morphe “form” (see morphine).
1806, from anthropomorphous + -ic. Originally in reference to regarding God or gods as having human form and human characteristics; of animals and other things from 1858; the sect of the Antropomorfites is mentioned in English from mid-15c. (see anthropomorphite).