Difference between Anthropoid and Human

What is the difference between Anthropoid and Human?

Anthropoid as an adjective is having characteristics of a human being, usually in terms of shape or appearance while Human as an adjective is of or belonging to the species homo sapiens or its closest relatives.

Anthropoid

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: having characteristics of a human being, usually in terms of shape or appearance having characteristics of an ape

Human

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A human being, whether man, woman or child.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives.Having the nature or attributes of a human being.

Example sentence: I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

We hope you now know whether to use Anthropoid or Human in your sentence.

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