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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | done by machine; machinelike |
| Synonyms: | automated, automatic, cold, cursory, emotionless, fixed, habitual, impersonal, instinctive, involuntary, laborsaving, lifeless, machine-driven, matter-of-fact, monotonous, perfunctory, programmed, routine, spiritless, standardized, stereotyped, unchanging, unconscious, unfeeling, unthinking, useful |
| Antonyms: | by hand, conscious, feeling, manual |
| Main Entry: | automatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | done or made by machine |
| Synonyms: | automated, electric, electronic, mechanical, mechanized, motorized, robotic, self-moving, self-regulating, self-starting |
| Antonyms: | by hand, manual |
| Main Entry: | automatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | done by habit |
| Synonyms: | autogenetic, habitual, impulsive, instinctive, instinctual, intuitive, involuntary, knee-jerk, mechanical, natural, perfunctory, reflex, routine, spontaneous, unconscious, unforced, unintentional, unmeditated, unthinking, unwilled |
| Antonyms: | thought-out |
| Main Entry: | habitual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, established |
| Synonyms: | accepted, accustomed, addicted, addicting, automatic, chronic, common, confirmed, constant, continual, conventional, customary, cyclic, disciplined, familiar, fixed, frequent, hardened, ingrained, inveterate, iterated, iterative, mechanical, methodical, natural, normal, ordinary, perfunctory, permanent, perpetual, persistent, practiced, recurrent, regular, reiterative, repeated, repetitious, rooted, routine, seasoned, set, standard, steady, systematic, traditional, wonted |
| Notes: | habitual means made a norm or custom or habit or fixed practice; customary means in accordance with convention or custom; usual means commonly or normally encountered, experienced, or observed |
| Antonyms: | infrequent, inhabitual, intermittent, occasional, rare, seldom, uncommon, unestablished, unusual |
| Main Entry: | industrial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | related to manufacturing |
| Synonyms: | automated, business, factory-made, in industry, industrialized, machine-made, manufactured, manufacturing, mechanical, mechanized, modern, smokestack, streamlined, technical |
| Antonyms: | domestic |
| Main Entry: | instinctive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reflex, automatic |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, by seat of one's pants, congenital, habitual, impulsive, inborn, ingrained, inherent, innate, instinctual, intrinsic, intuitional, intuitive, involuntary, knee-jerk, mechanical, native, natural, normal, regular, rooted, second-nature, spontaneous, typical, unlearned, unmeditated, unpremeditated, unprompted, unthinking, visceral |
| Antonyms: | conscious, deliberate, meditated, reasonable, sensible |
| Main Entry: | machine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who acts automatically |
| Synonyms: | agent, automaton, clone, drudge, grind, laborer, mechanical, puppet, robot, zombie |
| Main Entry: | motorized |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | power-driven |
| Synonyms: | mechanical, mechanized, powered |
| Main Entry: | perfunctory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | automatic, unthinking |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, careless, cool, cursory, disinterested, going through the motions, heedless, impersonal, inattentive, indifferent, involuntary, lackadaisical, laid-back*, mechanical, negligent, offhand, phoning it in, routine, sketchy, slipshod, slovenly, standard, stereotyped, stock, superficial, unaware, unconcerned, uninterested, usual, walking through it, wooden |
| Notes: | perfunctory is from Latin per- 'through' and fungi 'discharge; perform' meaning 'getting through the doing'; to do something carelessly is to perfunctorize or perfuncturate |
| Antonyms: | careful, precise, thoughtful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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