machinelike
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6.7
- adjective
- /məˈʃinˌlaɪk/
:
mecánico
- "That hurts," Joanna finally managed to whisper and tried to peel away the fingers, but they were fastened machinelike.
Examples
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Political intervention has simply changed over to a libertarian republic, and finance is the glue and the grease to that machinelike dictates and doctrines.
Blog text (23) -
The robot's actions were so precise and automatic that they seemed machinelike.
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Not yet Stanislavsky's method acting, Irving's "natural acting" looks for a middle ground between an actor too intimately identifying with the character and one becoming too machinelike.
Academic text (2017) -
Individual performers in Space Dance and Gesture Dance, their gestures stiff and machinelike, almost pass for overgrown, padded automata.
Academic text (2003) -
The concisely written main essay of Contrapunteo cubano, adhering to the logic of binary oppositions, seems to imitate the machinelike commercial logic of the sugar plantation.
Academic text (1996) -
She completed the task with machinelike efficiency, showing no signs of fatigue.
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His response was machinelike, lacking any hint of emotion as he carried out the instructions.
Synonyms
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3.7
Done without thinking, like a quick natural reaction
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5.2
Behaving like a machine, showing no feeling or interest
Acting like a machine without feeling or choice
Showing no feeling and acting like a machine
Antonyms
How Machinelike
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Machinelike comes from machine, originally from an old Greek word meaning 'device', plus the ending -like, which means 'similar to'. Imagine someone moving like a machine or a robot: automatic, exact and without feeling, and that is why machinelike means acting in a precise way and without feeling.