She achieved the movement by propelling herself through a series of balances, her arms and legs moving slowly and continuously, almost machinelike.
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Machinelike
Synonyms for "machinelike" (16 found)
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Closest matches (4)
Adjective(4 words)
Strong matches (4)
Adjective(3 words)
Noun(1 words)
mechanical action
Related words (8)
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More general
2 entriesdescriptive adjectivestylistic descriptor
More specific
4 entriesautomatic operationformulaic proserigid layoutrobotic behavior
Collocations
6 entriesmachinelike appearancemachinelike behaviormachinelike efficiencymachinelike precisionmachinelike responsemachinelike routine
Inflections
2 entriesmore machinelikemost machinelike
Derivations
1 entriessimilar
1 entriesSample sentences
2 total sentences available.
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.
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