Automatonlike

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
automaticmachinelikemechanicalroboticrobotlike

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"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."

Etymology

From automaton + -like.

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