Meanings
comparative more automatonlike · superlative most automatonlike
- Like an automaton; robotic.
There is further to go: Ms. Lowery’s lively head positions should be yet more elegant; Ms. Krohn is too automatonlike; and Ms. Reichlen at one point prolongs a preparation in an un-Balanchine way.
2008 February 16, Alastair Macaulay, “Love’s Labors Tossed and Turned in a Survey of the Heart’s Hard Edges”, in New York Times
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveresembling the unthinking functioning of a machine
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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