Automatonlike (Adjective)
Meaning
Resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine; "an automatic `thank you'"; "machinelike efficiency".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The factory worker's movements became automatonlike as she repeated the same task for hours on end.
- The politician's responses to the debate questions seemed automatonlike, lacking any genuine emotion or conviction.
- After a few hours of driving, the long stretch of highway began to induce an automatonlike state in the driver.
- The customer service representative's voice was automatonlike as she recited the same scripted phrases to each caller.
- The assembly line worker's hands moved with an automatonlike precision, assembling the parts with ease and speed.