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humanlike

humanlike \humanlike\ adj. resembling a human. [Narrower terms: {human (vs. nonhuman) ]

Syn: anthropomorphic, anthropomorphous.

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humanlike

a. Having characteristics of a human

WordNet
humanlike

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

Usage examples of "humanlike".

This opens the possibility that the humanlike femurs once attributed to Homo habilis might have belonged to anatomically modern human beings living in East Africa during the Early Pleistocene.

The voices of authority in paleoanthropology and the scientific community in general have managed to keep the humanlike view of Australopithecus intact.

Dark gray in color with pink streaks and a beard of green polyps that matted its chest region and hung beneath the jaw, it had two humanlike legs and a number of long narrow tentacles that were white with brown tips.

Sprawled on the ground in her line of sight were the unmoving forms of the nearest Conquerors, their jumpsuits spattered with very humanlike red blood.

She had expected something analogous to the gnomes, humanlike nodes, linked by tendrils.

On the currents of aether, insubstantial figures shaped in a vaguely humanlike form but composed of no mortal element danced in the fields of air through which these rivulets ran.

He looked up and around with his metallic skull and eerie humanlike eyes on biomechanical stalks.

The creature flexed and stretched, extended its wings to their full glory, reached and clawed at the air with its humanlike arms.

Elbryan lifted his bow and let fly, and the dactyl, so obviously surprised to see its enemies, took the hit squarely in the chest between its humanlike arms.

The demon spread wide its black wings and reached back with one humanlike arm, claws extended toward the flowing lava, grabbing the power and channeling it.

Directly before him, the substance that seemed so firm beneath his feet liquified and began turning slowly, then expanded upward, twisting, contorting into a vaguely, humanlike form.

But if it catered to his sensibilities in that shift, it only compromised: the iridescent, scaled skin, the fanged, elongated face, and the bare, webbed feet were many things, of which humanlike was not one.

Almost as if in response to his thoughts, the creature changed form subtly as it glided across the cavern toward him, gaining humanlike, feminine curves.

And Mother supplied images then, of himself on the ground, of Deymorin and Nikki and Kiyrstin, and a slender humanlike creature spreading an oil over his repulsive burns, burns that vanished with the oil's passing.

Shatro and Cassir became involved in an argument about what the humanlike remains signified.