HUMANOID Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

Definition of humanoid

as in human

looking or acting like a human being humanoid robots The movie is about humanoid aliens invading Earth.

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noun

as in creature

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Recent Examples of humanoid

Adjective

China is far ahead on humanoid robots, with firms like Unitree on the vanguard of cutting-edge tech. — John Werner, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 The machine features a humanoid upper body, four-legged mobility, and modular arm mounts that can carry tools such as a chainsaw. — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2026

Noun

People become more suspicious of a humanoid robot that makes errors, especially when the robot is an expressive conversation partner. — Yigit Topoglu, The Conversation, 3 Aug. 2026 But, a year later, a bright-red humanoid—swinging a pair of spindly arms for balance—beat all twelve thousand human competitors and broke the world record. — Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for humanoid

Recent Examples of Synonyms for humanoid

Adjective

What’s crucially lacking here is a particularly compelling sense of Reagan and Gorbachev as human characters.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026
Advances in microscopy, DNA sequencing, and genomics continue to reveal the enormous diversity of the microbial world and its central role in ecosystems, agriculture, biotechnology, and human health.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of human

Noun

The the world’s largest mountain range and deepest canyon occupy these might waters, but warming waters and habitat destruction have left the ocean‘s creatures struggling.

— Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 13 Aug. 2026
No other compound can unlock as much energy—and any creature that goes without O2 has to make do with less.

— James Dinneen, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of creature

Noun

That’s also when a Seattle gastroenterologist named Walter Voegtlin published a pale volume with a drawing of a loincloth-wearing hominid on the cover.

— David Merritt Johns, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026
The species detailed in a study published today in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology even likely went after anthropology’s most famous historical hominid—Australopithecus afarensis, better known as Lucy.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2026

Definition of hominid

Noun

One police officer was killed and another person injured when a gunman opened fire in a Montreal neighborhood in June, officials said.

— Mark Morales, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026
Abarca alleged that the situation involved at least one legislative staffer and one legislator, and that at least one person has been placed on administrative leave as a result.

— Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of person

Noun

Ries argues that leadership transitions succeed not because remarkable individuals take over, but because organizations have embedded their purpose deeply enough to survive leadership change.

— Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Any individual or institution with an Internet connection faces the danger that its proprietary data will be sucked into AI training sets.

— Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of individual

Noun

Officers were already at an unrelated car crash two blocks away when they were summoned to a single-family home in Windfield based on a 911 call from a man who identified himself as the shooter, Windfield Police Chief Robbie DeLong said.

— Dennis Romero, NBC news, 12 Aug. 2026
The mother of 19-year-old Izick Aminartey is remembering her son as a loving young man after he was identified as one of two people killed in a shooting in Essex, Maryland.

— Drew Aunkst, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of man

Noun

Things get increasingly bleak, as the family dog’s heart medicine runs out and Jason has to put him out of his misery, and then — in doomsday prepper mode — carves up the body and puts it in the freezer just in case food gets dire.

— William Earl, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026
North and Central America and Caribbean governing body CONCACAF and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) have both criticized the FIFA president and rejected the plan.

— Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026

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