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automatonlike

automatonlike adjective: like an automaton; robotic.

Adjective

automatonlike (comparative more automatonlike, superlative most automatonlike)

  1. 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

Forms of automatonlike

comparativemore automatonlike
superlativemost automatonlike

Origin of automatonlike

From automaton + -like.

Questions about automatonlike

What does automatonlike mean?
Automatonlike means like an automaton; robotic.
What part of speech is automatonlike?
Automatonlike is an adjective.

Words near automatonlike in the dictionary

  1. automatograms
  2. automatograph
  3. automatographs
  4. automaton
  5. automatonism
  6. automatonlike
  7. automatonophobia
  8. automatonophobiac
  9. automatonophobiacs
  10. automatonophobias
  11. automatons

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