robotic
- adjective
- /roʊˈbɑːtɪk/
- You can't praise them with a sort of dull, robotic tone in your voice.
- robotic voice
- robotic way
- robotic motion
It's it's a reflex isn't like a robotic response.
- It's it's a reflex isn't like a robotic response.
- You can't praise them with a sort of dull, robotic tone in your voice.
- Yeah, That knew and was robotic, totally robotic in his response.
- His thinking scared her, his new fears the the flat robotic talking.
- And you do that, especially listening to some hypnotic robotic female voice counting off for you.
- I must just have a real, I don't know, just like AI robotic way of speaking sometimes.
- But when you spit out a number and it's just is this yes or no, then it feels almost robotic, like one of those easy bake cookie recipes.
- Because the effect that that has is you sound robotic on camera and it's really hard to understand the end of words.
- And they're doing so many jobs and investigating so many crimes at a time that it's like it becomes robotic almost.
- I know after a while it can become very robotic, but to me, that's still better than not doing it at all.
- Like she's very robotic about the whole thing, which left me feeling like a little bit empty about the whole affair.
- Everything was robotic from the minute of going into the room with somebody and the minute you leave, you just switch off.
Examples
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I don't know if he was robotic or just nervous; defiant or just embarrassed.
Blog text (16) -
I read a post the other day that sounded so robotic it turned me off.
Blog text (1) -
Because the effect that that has is you sound robotic on camera and it's really hard to understand the end of words.
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Everything was robotic from the minute of going into the room with somebody and the minute you leave, you just switch off.
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I know after a while it can become very robotic, but to me, that's still better than not doing it at all.
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But the motion of his arm was robotic, jabbing the air as he came closer to me.
Fiction book (1997) -
Like she's very robotic about the whole thing, which left me feeling like a little bit empty about the whole affair.
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Which ends up being a very robotic experience and nobody cares what's on that checklist.
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Oren has robotic movements and this robotic speech, it's a glitch, like he's a computer.
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She spoke in a robotic tone, without any emotion in her voice.
Synonyms
Done without thinking, like a quick natural reaction
Moving or acting like a machine without feeling
Acting in a very exact, automatic way without showing feeling
Acting like a machine without feeling or choice
Showing no feeling and acting like a machine
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
Surgery using robotic tools that a surgeon controls from far away
How Emotionless
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Robotic comes from the Czech robota ('forced work') and the word robot, a machine with no feelings. That's why robotic can describe people or actions that seem automatic, mechanical, or unfeeling.