mechanically

Examples

• All

• We would be mechanically compatible for many similar functions.

  Heartbeeps (1981)

• The bags are separated and removed mechanically at the Wright County mixed waste composting facility.

  Academic text (1995)

• This is in fact mechanically how it works.

• But again, mechanically it's not that necessary.

• I'm only saying that it's mechanically complex.

  Gunless (2010)

• It's a mechanically operated bolt action rifle.

  NOVA: Cold Case JFK (2013)

• I know how the body works chemically and mechanically and I know the signs when it's not working right.

  Stem Cell (2009)

• In the meantime, Farias was mechanically moving his toes inside his own shoes.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Much of the hand-harvested rice is threshed mechanically these days, but Ojibway rice and cultivated rice still differ.

  Academic text (1998)

• The door opened mechanically when I pressed the button.

Synonyms

A

automatically

vsmechanically

• Specialized

257 3.1

Something happens by a machine or system without a person doing it

also includes a sense of being uninspired or related to machines, not only no control

R

robotically

vsmechanically

3 6.1

To act without feeling, like a machine

is more about automatic or uninspired action than pure lack of feeling

M

mechanistically

vsmechanically

8.5

In a way that treats something as if it works like a machine

focuses more on actual machine action or automatic, uninspired conduct

E

electromechanically

vsmechanically

• Specialized

8.1

In a way that uses electric and mechanical parts together

is broader, covering general automatic or uninspired action beyond electrical systems

Antonyms

S

spontaneously

48 4.4

To act naturally without planning or being forced

C

creatively

41 3.5

In a way that uses new ideas to make things or solve problems

How Mechanical

robotically

3 6.1

automatically

77 2.9

mechanically

11 3.7

manually

72 3.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology