automatonlike

• Décrit une personne ou une action qui est mécanique, sans réflexion et dépourvue d'émotion ou de spontanéité, comme un robot ou un automate.

Describes a person or action that is mechanical, unthinking, and lacking in emotion or spontaneity, like a robot or automaton.

1. Resembling a machineC1formal

   Acting or moving in a mechanical, unthinking, or repetitive manner, like an automaton.

   Qui agit comme un automate

   • His automatonlike movements suggested he was exhausted.
   • She performed her duties in an automatonlike fashion, without any emotion.
   • The workers moved in an automatonlike rhythm, completing the same task over and over.

   Synonymesautomaticexpressionlesslifelessmachinelikemechanicalrepetitiverobotlikeroutinestiffstiltedunfeelingunthinkingwooden

   Antonymesanimatedimpulsivelivelynaturalspontaneousunmechanical