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simious

[ sim-ee-uhs ]

adjective

  1. pertaining to or characteristic of apes or monkeys; simian.


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Other Words From

  • simi·ous·ness noun
  • sub·simi·ous adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of simious1

1795–1805; < Latin sīmi ( a ) ape ( simian ) + -ous
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Example Sentences

The remains described by Professor Broca310 from Les Eyzies, though they unfortunately appear to have belonged to a single family, indicate a race with a most singular combination of low or simious and high characteristics, and is “entirely different from any other race, ancient or modern, that we have ever heard of.”

Here was native talent forming a channel for itself, in which perhaps it had better run freely, exercising originality, than labour with imitative and simious toil at the manufacture of ideal Art-Alepots.

Philosophy shows us 'twixt monkey and man One simious line in unbroken extendage; Development only since first it began— And chiefly in losing the caudal appendage.

The prophet Hud remonstrated; but his remonstrances went for nothing, and the indignant monarch and his courtiers suddenly found their visages simious, their tongues chattering, and their lower portions furnished with tails—a species of transformation, which, so far as regards visage and tongue, is supposed to be not unfrequent among courtiers to this day.

Associated words: monkish, monastic, monastery, monasticism, conventual. monk's-hood, n. wolfsbane, aconite. monk's hood. cowl. monkeylike, a. simious. monogram, n. cipher. monologist, n. soliloquist. monologue, n. soliloquy. monopolize, v. engross, forestall. monotonous, a. unvaried, uniform, uninteresting, humdrum, tedious. monotony, n. monotone, tedium. monster, n. prodigy, enormity, abnormality, monstrosity lusus naturæ; fiend, brute, ogre, villain; Cerberus, Chimera, Minotaur, Bucentaur. monstrosity, n. abnormality, monster, lusus naturæ. monstrous, a. abnormal; enormous, colossal; atrocious. month, n.

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