anthropological
pronunciation
How to pronounce anthropological in British English:
UK [ˌænθrəpəˈlɒdʒɪkəl]
How to pronounce anthropological in American English:
US [ˌænθrəpəˈlɑdʒəkəl]
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- Adjective:
- of or concerned with the science of anthropology
Word Origin
- anthropological (adj.)
- 1825, from anthropology + -ical. Related: Anthropologically.
Example
- 1. He and his colleagues have turned to archaeological and anthropological data to show that early farmers used ten times as much land per person as modern farmers .
- 2. In spite of this difference there is one basic question common to the three negative utopias , the question is a philosophical , anthropological and psychological one , and perhaps also a religious one .
- 3. This hope for man 's individual and social perfectibility , which in philosophical and anthropological terms was clearly expressed in the writings of the enlightenment philosophers of the eighteenth century and of the socialist thinkers of the nineteenth , remained unchanged until after the first world war .