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

Today, Unitree’s pre-IPO investors are sitting on a windfall gain, although nobody really knows if there’s a commercial application for the gangly humanoid contraptions. — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 25 Aug. 2026 Investors have poured more than $6 billion into humanoid robot companies in 2025 alone, with Chinese companies being especially aggressive in testing and deploying such robots. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2026

Noun

China excels in hardware China has plenty of humanoid robots to work with. — Ann Scott Tyson, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Aug. 2026 Like the inaugural event held in 2025, this year’s event challenged humanoid robots to run fast, perform kung fu or dance moves, fight one another in kickboxing, and play soccer or table tennis. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for humanoid

Recent Examples of Synonyms for humanoid

Adjective

Things could be better, which goes without saying in the aftermath of a flu pandemic that has wiped out most of the planet’s human population, but the four principals here could also be dead, so there’s that.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
The service got its name from the original Mechanical Turk, an 18th century chess-playing robot that was actually controlled by a human chess master.

— Annie Palmer, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of human

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

Its movements and squeaks change in response to the person interacting with it, giving caregivers another way to reduce distress and encourage engagement.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026
Dramatic video showed the rescue of one such person as authorities from Nepal worked to drag the man out of the mud deluge.

— Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of person

Noun

In a statement to PEOPLE, a Fort Collins Police spokesperson confirmed that six individuals were transported by ambulance to area hospitals, including the driver, who was described only as an adult male.

— Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026
Its officers have the authority to detain individuals until Kansas City police arrive.

— Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of individual

Noun

In both women and men with class III obesity, defined as a BMI of 40 or higher, there was no statistically significant difference in mortality risk.

— Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026
Still, the archetypal influencer in our cultural imagination is not a man reviewing watches on YouTube or hosting a podcast from his studio in Austin.

— Laura Jung, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of man

Noun

By the 20th century, summer excursions to the Highlands were a fixture of the aristocratic calendar, with transatlantic visitors soon joining the English to shoot, fish, and feign indifference to horizontal rain.

— Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2026
Zebra sharks tend to rest on reef floors, regulating bottom-dwelling prey such as snails, clams, crabs, shrimp and small fish, an important part of maintaining thriving ecosystems.

— Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of fish

Noun

The eight-member body oversees McCuskey’s work and consists of four Democratic and four Republican legislators, including Keicher.

— Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2026
Rather than just a reproductive issue, endometriosis is a whole-body condition, affecting everything from emotional regulation to hormone production and gut health.

— Bella Webb, Vogue, 28 Aug. 2026

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