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MACHINELIKE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does machinelike mean?
• MACHINELIKE (adjective)
The adjective MACHINELIKE has 1 sense:
1. resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine
Familiarity information: MACHINELIKE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine
Synonyms:
automatic; automatonlike; machinelike; robotic; robotlike
Context example:
machinelike efficiency
Similar:
mechanical (using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices)
Context examples
It was super-machinelike, and it helped to crush out the glimmering bit of soul that was all that was left him from former life.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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