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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^[1]:

     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