machinelike

comparative more machinelike · superlative most machinelike

1. Resembling a machine; mechanical in form

   She achieved the movement by propelling herself through a series of balances, her arms and legs moving slowly and continuously, almost machinelike.

   1988 July 1, Laura Molzahn, “Private Puritan”, in Chicago Reader

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   The latter, for example, are overheard dismissing the former as mere “quantoids”—as if quantitative methods turn those who deploy them into machinelike expellers of numeric waste.

   2015, Immanuel Wallerstein, Carlos Aguirre Rojas, Charles C. Lemert, Uncertain Worlds: World-systems Analysis in Changing Times

   Synonyms: mechanical