Word.ws English Dictionary

semianimal

semianimal adjective: half or partly animal.

Adjective

semianimal (not comparable)

  1. Half or partly animal.
    • According to people who were there, he held séances in which he produced mysterious creatures out of nowhere — human forms, semihuman, animal, semianimal.2008, David Ambrose, Superstition

Origin of semianimal

From semi- + animal.

Questions about semianimal

What does semianimal mean?
Semianimal means half or partly animal.
What part of speech is semianimal?
Semianimal is an adjective.

Words near semianimal in the dictionary

  1. semianatropous
  2. semianechoic
  3. semiangle
  4. semiangles
  5. semiangry
  6. semianimal
  7. semianimate
  8. semiannual
  9. semiannually
  10. semiannuals
  11. semiannular

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: semianimal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “semianimal.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/semianimal. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.