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| Main Entry: | mechanical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | done by machine; machinelike |
| Synonyms: | automated, automatic, cold, cursory, emotionless, fixed, habitual, impersonal, instinctive, involuntary, lifeless, matter-of-fact, monotonous, perfunctory, routine, spiritless, standardized, stereotyped, unchanging, unconscious, unfeeling, unthinking, useful, laborsaving, machine-driven, programmed |
| Antonyms: | by hand, conscious, feeling, manual |
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| Main Entry: | automated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | made or done by a machine |
| Synonyms: | automatic, computerized, electronic, mechanical, motorized, electrical, mechanized, programmed, robotic |
| Antonyms: | by hand, manual |
| Main Entry: | habitual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, established |
| Synonyms: | accepted, accustomed, addicted, automatic, chronic, common, confirmed, constant, continual, conventional, customary, familiar, fixed, frequent, hardened, ingrained, inveterate, mechanical, methodical, natural, normal, ordinary, perfunctory, permanent, perpetual, persistent, practiced, recurrent, regular, repeated, repetitious, rooted, routine, seasoned, set, standard, steady, systematic, traditional, wonted, addicting, cyclic, disciplined, iterated, iterative, reiterative |
| 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, intermittent, occasional, rare, seldom, uncommon, unusual, inhabitual, unestablished |
| Main Entry: | industrial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | related to manufacturing |
| Synonyms: | automated, business, manufactured, manufacturing, mechanical, modern, streamlined, technical, factory-made, in industry, industrialized, machine-made, mechanized, smokestack |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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, heedless, impersonal, inattentive, indifferent, involuntary, lackadaisical, laid-back*, mechanical, negligent, offhand, routine, sketchy, slipshod*, slovenly, standard, stereotyped, stock, superficial, unaware, unconcerned, uninterested, usual, wooden*, going through the motions, phoning it in, walking through it |
| Antonyms: | careful, precise, thoughtful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | technical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning details, mechanics |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, industrial, mechanical, occupational, professional, restricted, scholarly, scientific, special, specialized, high-tech, methodological, technological, vocational |
| Antonyms: | unmechanical, untechnical |
| Main Entry: | unthinking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careless |
| Synonyms: | feckless, foolish, heedless, impulsive, inadvertent, inconsiderate, indelicate, insensitive, instinctive, mechanical, negligent, oblivious, outrageous, rash, rude, selfish, senseless, tactless, thoughtless, uncaring, unconscious, unheeding, unmindful, unpremeditated, unwise, vacant, witless, blundering, brutish, napping, undiplomatic, unintended, unmeant, unreasoning, untactful |
| Antonyms: | careful, cautious, thoughtful |
| Main Entry: | automatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | done or made by machine |
| Synonyms: | automated, electric, electronic, mechanical, motorized, mechanized, robotic, self-moving, self-regulating, self-starting |
| Antonyms: | by hand, manual |
| Main Entry: | stiff |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard, inflexible |
| Synonyms: | brittle, firm, fixed, frozen, graceless, hardened, inelastic, mechanical, ossified, petrified, refractory, resistant, rigid, set, solid, starchy, stark, stony, taut, tense, thick, tight, unbending, ungraceful, unyielding, wooden, annealed, arthritic, benumbed, buckram, cemented, chilled, congealed, contracted, creaky, immalleable, impliable, incompliant, indurate, jelled, numbed, rheumatic, solidified, starched, steely, stiff as a board, thickened, unflexible, unsupple |
| Antonyms: | flexible, pliable, pliant, soft |
| Main Entry: | automatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | done by habit |
| Synonyms: | habitual, impulsive, instinctive, intuitive, involuntary, knee-jerk, mechanical, natural, perfunctory, reflex, routine, spontaneous, unconscious, unintentional, unthinking, autogenetic, instinctual, unforced, unmeditated, unwilled |
| Antonyms: | thought-out |
| Main Entry: | regular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | orderly, consistent, balanced |
| Synonyms: | accordant, automatic, classified, congruous, consonant, constant, dependable, efficient, established, even, exact, expected, fixed, flat, formal, harmonious, invariable, level, measured, mechanical, methodical, momentary, ordered, organized, periodic, precise, probable, punctual, rational, recurrent, regulated, rhythmic, routine, serial, set, smooth, standardized, stated, steady, straight, successive, symmetrical, systematic, uniform, alternating, arranged, cyclic, in order, patterned |
| Antonyms: | changing, disorderly, inconsistent, infrequent, irregular, unsteady, variable, imbalanced |
| Main Entry: | machine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who acts automatically |
| Synonyms: | agent, clone, drudge, grind, laborer, mechanical, puppet, robot, automaton, zombie |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | materials |
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