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anthropophagic

anthropophagic adjective: cannibalistic; man-eating.

Adjective

anthropophagic (comparative more anthropophagic, superlative most anthropophagic)

  1. Cannibalistic; man-eating.
    • They embody the anthropophagic attitude of tropicalismo: constantly changing and taking from the cosmos, yet always remaining rooted in themselves.2007 September 30, Devendra Banhart, “From Uruguay’s Dylan to R. Kelly’s ‘Sex Planet’”, in New York Times
    • Consumed, with its narrative cat’s cradle tightly woven around putatively anthropophagic husband-and-wife French philosophers, wouldn’t be easy to pitch to Hollywood execs.2015, Will Self, ‘Man-Eating Philosophers’, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12

Forms of anthropophagic

comparativemore anthropophagic
superlativemost anthropophagic

Origin of anthropophagic

From anthropo- + -phagic.

Questions about anthropophagic

What does anthropophagic mean?
Anthropophagic means cannibalistic; man-eating.
What part of speech is anthropophagic?
Anthropophagic is an adjective.

Words near anthropophagic in the dictionary

  1. anthropopathy
  2. anthropopause
  3. anthropopauses
  4. anthropopeia
  5. anthropophagi
  6. anthropophagic
  7. anthropophagical
  8. anthropophagies
  9. anthropophaginian
  10. anthropophaginians
  11. anthropophagism

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