Last Updated：2025/11/20

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember vocabulary

(transitive) To endow with human qualities. / (transitive) To attribute human-like characteristics to (something that is non-human).

音声機能が動作しない場合はこちらをご確認ください

See correct answer

anthropomorphize

Edit Histories（0）

Source Word

anthropomorphize

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˌanθrəpəˈmɔːfʌɪz/

Verb

transitive

(transitive) To endow with human qualities. / (transitive) To attribute human-like characteristics to (something that is non-human).

Japanese Meaning

非人間に人間の性質や特徴を与えること。 / 人間的な特徴や性質を付与する行為。

What is this buttons?

Writers often anthropomorphize technology to make complex systems feel more approachable to readers.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

作家はしばしば、複雑なシステムを読者にとってより親しみやすくするために、技術を擬人化する。

Details

Sense（1）

(transitive) To endow with human qualities.

Sense（2）

(transitive) To attribute human-like characteristics to (something that is non-human).

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.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Details

anthropomorphizes

（ present singular third-person ）

anthropomorphizing

（ participle present ）

anthropomorphized

（ participle past ）

anthropomorphized

（ past ）

Details

anthropomorphize

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember vocabulary

Login / Sign up

Download the app!

anthropomorphize

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember vocabulary

Login / Sign up

Login

──── or ────

Sign up

──── or ────

Download the app!