英和和英

形容詞

machinelike (comparative more machinelike, superlative most machinelike)

1. Resembling a machine; mechanical in form
   • 1988 July 1, Laura Molzahn, “Private Puritan”, in Chicago Reader‎:

     She achieved the movement by propelling herself through a series of balances, her arms and legs moving slowly and continuously, almost machinelike.

   • 2015, Immanuel Wallerstein, Carlos Aguirre Rojas, Charles C. Lemert, Uncertain Worlds: World-systems Analysis in Changing Times:

     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.

同意語

• mechanical