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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things [syn: anthropomorphic, anthropomorphous, humanlike]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Late Latin anthropomorphus of human form, from Greek anthr?pomorphos, from anthr?p- + -morphos -morphous Date: 1827 1. described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes <anthropomorphic deities> 2. ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman things <anthropomorphic supernaturalism> • anthropomorphically adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. of or characterized by anthropomorphism. Derivatives: anthropomorphically adv. Etymology: as ANTHROPOMORPHOUS + -IC

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Anthropomorphic An`thro*po*mor"phic, a. Of or pertaining to anthropomorphism. --Hadley. -- An`thro*po*mor"phic*al*ly, adv.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Anthropomorphic means relating to the idea that an animal, a god, or an object has feelings or characteristics like those of a human being. ...the anthropomorphic attitude to animals... ADJ