machinelike

adjective

like a machine, as in regular movement or uniform pattern of operation: to conduct business with machinelike efficiency.

Origin:
1690–1700; machine + -like

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machinelike
adjective
resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine; "an automatic 'thank you'"; "machinelike efficiency" [syn: automatic]

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Machinelike is always a great word to know.

So is callithumpian. Does it mean:

a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

Example sentences

Amid familiar heart tones and breath sounds, this alien, machinelike noise had emerged and claimed my attention.

And our rationality is not a smooth machinelike intelligence but a complicated landscape of strengths and weaknesses.

Inside the plant, workers use foot pedals to operate sewing-machinelike devices that coil the lines around spools for packaging.

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