Adjective: anthropophagistic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more anthropophagistic |
| Superlative | most anthropophagistic |
Sample Sentences
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This happened in New Zealand; but as they were all killed—and eaten, except him who was converted into an anthropophagistic necklace—we must ask who brought the story to London? [1826, John Anderson, “Mission to the East Coast of Sumatra in 1823”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 34, page 109:]
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Now it must not be supposed that Mrs. Jones was a lady of ghost-like or anthropophagistic habit, for it was only a story by the above title, and it was being mentally digested, when Mr. Jones spoke without lifting his eyes from the paper […] [1870 April 26, “The Three Volunteers”, in The Gentleman's Journal, volume 1, page 342:]
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In true anthropophagistic fashion, an apparently domesticated cultural subject trumps its more powerful opponent by feigning a retreat. [1990, Neil Larsen, Modernism and Hegemony: A Materialist Critique of Aesthetic Agencies:]
Adjectives inflected like anthropophagistic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology