Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to anthropomorphize
Participle: anthropomorphized
Gerund: anthropomorphizing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | anthropomorphize |
| you | anthropomorphize |
| he;she;it | anthropomorphizes |
| we | anthropomorphize |
| you | anthropomorphize |
| they | anthropomorphize |
Perfect
| I | have anthropomorphized |
| you | have anthropomorphized |
| he;she;it | has anthropomorphized |
| we | have anthropomorphized |
| you | have anthropomorphized |
| they | have anthropomorphized |
Past
| I | anthropomorphized |
| you | anthropomorphized |
| he;she;it | anthropomorphized |
| we | anthropomorphized |
| you | anthropomorphized |
| they | anthropomorphized |
Pluperfect
| I | had anthropomorphized |
| you | had anthropomorphized |
| he;she;it | had anthropomorphized |
| we | had anthropomorphized |
| you | had anthropomorphized |
| they | had anthropomorphized |
Future
| I | will anthropomorphize |
| you | will anthropomorphize |
| he;she;it | will anthropomorphize |
| we | will anthropomorphize |
| you | will anthropomorphize |
| they | will anthropomorphize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have anthropomorphized |
| you | will have anthropomorphized |
| he;she;it | will have anthropomorphized |
| we | will have anthropomorphized |
| you | will have anthropomorphized |
| they | will have anthropomorphized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | anthropomorphize |
| you | anthropomorphize |
| he;she;it | anthropomorphize |
| we | anthropomorphize |
| you | anthropomorphize |
| they | anthropomorphize |
Perfect
| I | have anthropomorphized |
| you | have anthropomorphized |
| he;she;it | have anthropomorphized |
| we | have anthropomorphized |
| you | have anthropomorphized |
| they | have anthropomorphized |
Imperfect
| I | anthropomorphized |
| you | anthropomorphized |
| he;she;it | anthropomorphized |
| we | anthropomorphized |
| you | anthropomorphized |
| they | anthropomorphized |
Pluperfect
| I | had anthropomorphized |
| you | had anthropomorphized |
| he;she;it | had anthropomorphized |
| we | had anthropomorphized |
| you | had anthropomorphized |
| they | had anthropomorphized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would anthropomorphize |
| you | would anthropomorphize |
| he;she;it | would anthropomorphize |
| we | would anthropomorphize |
| you | would anthropomorphize |
| they | would anthropomorphize |
Perfect
| I | would have anthropomorphized |
| you | would have anthropomorphized |
| he;she;it | would have anthropomorphized |
| we | would have anthropomorphized |
| you | would have anthropomorphized |
| they | would have anthropomorphized |
Imperative
| you | anthropomorphize |
| we | Let's anthropomorphize |
| you | anthropomorphize |
Verbs conjugated like 'anthropomorphize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'anthropomorphize'
anthropomorphise,
anthropogenize,
anthropize,
zoomorphize,
amorphize,
anteriorize,
anthologize,
anthropise,
astronomize,
metamorphize,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
By surface analysis, anthropo- + morph + -ize.
Sample Sentences
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Bonnie Lucas further anthropomorphizes the flower in her watercolors, combining it surreally with the human female figure[…] [1988 January 15, Kathryn Hixson, “On Exhibit: a gallery full of flowers”, in Chicago Reader:]
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A month away from twenty-six and there you are, in the middle of a Monday afternoon, genuinely engaged in the madcap antics of a slope-headed, claymated man and his anthropomorphized horse. [1998, Paul McComas, Twenty Questions: A Collection of Short and Very Short Stories, Fithian Press, →ISBN, page 33:]
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It has been two months since I last checked my feed, during which time Facebook has sent me notifications I didn't sign up for, informing me every time someone posts, and invited me to attend locally organised focus groups. […] Of course, I am anthropomorphising a machine; no one is in charge of all this. [2018 June 15, Emma Brockes, “No, Facebook, I won’t be back. I’ve seen the dangers of habitual sharing”, in The Guardian:]
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But for some animal-obsessive ceramists, anthropomorphizing as a sculptural approach is a zany (and speedy) joy. [2021 August 19, Nancy Hass, “The Ceramists Crafting Miniature Menageries”, in The New York Times Style Magazine:]
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I do think that this perspective offers a useful corrective to the tendency to anthropomorphize large-language models, but there is another aspect to the compression analogy that is worth considering. [2023 February 9, Ted Chiang, “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”, in The New Yorker:]