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⏰ Very regular 🕰️ Like a clock
clocklike

clocklike

1 4.7
Happening at very regular times like a clock
  • adjective
  • /ˈklɒklaɪk/
: rítmico
  • The pendulum swings of the grandfather clock create a clocklike pattern that is both soothing and precise.

Examples

  • The heartbeat of the metronome progressed with a steady, clocklike rhythm, helping the musicians keep time.

  • Arthur Dexter Bradley found out he was a bomb on the day he started ticking; and not merely with a heartbeat, but with a steady, clocklike rhythm unmistakably the sound of a major thermonuclear weapon.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • The tides at this coastal village rise and fall in a clocklike manner due to the gravitational pull of the moon.

Synonyms

timed
vsclocklike
16 3.9

Happening at regular, set times

is precise ongoing regularity rather than mere scheduled events
metronomic
vsclocklike
1 7.2

Has a steady, regular rhythm like a clock

is regular and precise but not necessarily rhythmic or continuous

Antonyms

irregular
42 3.5

Happening at no fixed times

imprecise
13 5.5

Not exact or clear enough to be useful

How Regular

clocklike
1 4.7
regular
37 1.0
steady
327 2.0
irregular
42 3.5
variable
49 3.6

Surface Forms

clocklike positive

Morphology

clocklike = clock (transparent) = clock + like

Formed by adding the productive suffix '-like' to 'clock', yielding the meaning 'resembling or having the qualities of a clock'.

Etymology

Clocklike comes from clock, a word that began as a name for a 'bell' because early clocks rang to show the time. So to be clocklike is to happen with steady, exact timing like a clock.