Machinelike (Adjective)
Meaning
Resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine; "an automatic `thank you'"; "machinelike efficiency".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The new employee went about her tasks with machinelike precision, completing each one quickly and efficiently without seeming to think or question anything.
- His movements became increasingly machinelike as he went through the familiar motions of the dance, his eyes glazing over with a detached intensity.
- The politician's smile was machinelike, a perfect reproduction of sincerity and charm, but completely lacking in genuine warmth or emotion.
- After weeks of grueling training, the soldier's body responded to commands with machinelike obedience, her actions automatic and devoid of thought or feeling.
- The company's assembly line was staffed by workers who performed their tasks with machinelike repetition, each one carrying out the same simple operation thousands of times a day.