anthropophagic

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adjective

Cannibalistic; man-eating.

Scrabble 27

Meanings

adjectiveanthropophagic (comparative more anthropophagic, superlative most anthropophagic)

comparative more anthropophagic · superlative most anthropophagic

  1. Cannibalistic; man-eating.

    They embody the anthropophagic attitude of tropicalismo: constantly changing and taking from the cosmos, yet always remaining rooted in themselves.

    2007 September 30, Devendra Banhart, “From Uruguay’s Dylan to R. Kelly’s ‘Sex Planet’”, in New York Times
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    Consumed, with its narrative cat’s cradle tightly woven around putatively anthropophagic husband-and-wife French philosophers, wouldn’t be easy to pitch to Hollywood execs.

    2015, Will Self, ‘Man-Eating Philosophers’, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12

Origin

Translations

Italian antropofagico
  • antropofagicoTranslations
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