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machinistic

machinistic adjective: of, or relating to machines; mechanistic.

Adjective

machinistic (comparative more machinistic, superlative most machinistic)

  1. Of, or relating to machines; mechanistic.
    • In the last years of his life Orozco adopted a machinistic and abstract style, already prophesied in the right half of one of the Dartmouth murals.1959, John Canaday, “Reactions against Abstraction”, in Mainstreams of Modern Art, page 510
    • Trees may be pruned to a variety of distortions, artistic to some beholders, machinistic to others.1988, Taylor's Guide to Gardening, →ISBN, page 59

Forms of machinistic

comparativemore machinistic
superlativemost machinistic

Origin of machinistic

From machin(e) + -istic.

Questions about machinistic

What does machinistic mean?
Machinistic means of, or relating to machines; mechanistic.
What part of speech is machinistic?
Machinistic is an adjective.

Words near machinistic in the dictionary

  1. machinising
  2. machinism
  3. machinist
  4. machinist block
  5. machinist blocks
  6. machinistic
  7. machinists
  8. machinization
  9. machinizations
  10. machinize
  11. machinized

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