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machinelike

machinelike adjective: resembling a machine; mechanical in form.

Adjective

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
    • 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

machinelike meaning in Marathi

machinelike in Marathi

Translations
मशिनीसारखा maśinīsārkhā, मशिनीसारखी maśinīsārkhī, मशिनीसारखे maśinīsārkhe

Synonyms of machinelike

Forms of machinelike

comparativemore machinelike
superlativemost machinelike

Origin of machinelike

From machine + -like.

Questions about machinelike

What does machinelike mean?
Machinelike means resembling a machine; mechanical in form.
What is machinelike in Marathi?
Machinelike in Marathi is मशिनीसारखा (maśinīsārkhā), मशिनीसारखी (maśinīsārkhī), मशिनीसारखे (maśinīsārkhe). See Machinelike meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is machinelike?
Machinelike is an adjective.

Words near machinelike in the dictionary

  1. machinegunners
  2. machinegunning
  3. machineguns
  4. machineless
  5. machinelessness
  6. machinelike
  7. machinely
  8. machinema
  9. machineman
  10. machinemen
  11. machiner

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