Anthropophagist
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A cannibal. rare
"The want of food became so urgent, that flesh was torn from dead human bodies; children were strangled by their parents, for the purpose of feasting on their flesh; and bands of express anthropophagists traversed the whole country."
- 2 A follower or representative of the Manifesto Antropófago of Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian poet; one who advocates a "cannibalistic" attitude towards the appropriation of European culture.
"The anthropophagists were out to celebrate life. They rejected the oppressive theories of Freud and advocated a reality "sem complexos, sem loucura, sem prostituições" ("Manifesto antropófago", Revista de Antopofagia, I) ["without complexes, without madness, without prostitutions"]."
Example
More examples"The want of food became so urgent, that flesh was torn from dead human bodies; children were strangled by their parents, for the purpose of feasting on their flesh; and bands of express anthropophagists traversed the whole country."
Etymology
From anthropophagy + -ist.
More for "anthropophagist"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.