"What anthropoid would your girlfriend be most like?" "What a question... Well, um... An orangutan, I guess."
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Anthropoid
/ˈænθɹəpɔɪd/
Synonyms for "anthropoid" (46 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Noun(4 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (13)
Adjective(1 words)
Noun(2 words)
Related words (23)
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14 entriesCollocations
6 entriesanthropoid apeanthropoid lineageanthropoid primatesanthropoid skullanthropoid speciessimian anthropoid
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
2 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
23 translations across 16 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀνθρωποειδής adj (having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance)
Belarusian
1 entries- чалавекападо́бны adj (having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance)
Catalan
1 entries- antropoide adj (having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance)
Finnish
1 entries- ihmismäinen adj (having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance)
German
1 entries- menschenähnlich adj (having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance)
Greek
1 entries- ανθρωποειδής adj (having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance)
Irish
1 entries- antrapóideach adj (having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance)
Manx
1 entries- antrapoydagh adj (having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance)
Polish
2 entries- antropoidalny adj (having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance)
- człekokształtny adj (having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance)
Portuguese
1 entries- antropoide adj (having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance)
Romanian
2 entries- antropoid adj (having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance)
- antropomorf adj (having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance)
Russian
2 entries- человекообра́зный adj (having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance)
- человекоподо́бный adj (having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- čovjekòlik adj (having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance)
- ȁntropoīdan adj (having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance)
- а̏нтропоӣдан adj (having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance)
- човјеко̀лик adj (having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance)
Spanish
1 entries- antropoide adj (having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance)
Swedish
2 entries- antropoid adj (having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance)
- människoliknande adj (having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance)
Ukrainian
1 entries- людиноподі́бний adj (having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.
Source: tatoeba (6303387)
An anthropoid ape has a body which is several times as hardy, durable and mighty as that of even the strongest man, but the ape has not the brain of a civilized man.
Source: tatoeba (11676071)
“And I am sorry for the man she loves,” said the girl, “for he loves her. I never met him, but from what Jane tells me he must be a very wonderful person. It seems that he was born in an African jungle, and brought up by fierce, anthropoid apes.”
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