mechanical

mechanical
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
adj. machinelike, automatic, power-driven, powered; involuntary, unreasoning. See power, necessity.
II
(Roget's IV) modif.
1. [Concerning machinery]
Syn. engineering, production, manufacturing, tooling, tuning, implementing, fabricating, fabrication, forging, machining, building, construction, constructing.
2. [Like a machine]
Syn. habitual, routine, automatic, unthinking, made to a pattern, machinelike, stereotyped, standardized, without variation, fixed, unchanging, monotonous.
Ant. original*, varied, changing*.
3. [Operated by the use of machinery]
Syn. power-driven, involuntary, programmed; see automated , automatic .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.
1. technological power-driven, motor-driven, machine-driven, automated, *robotic.
2. skilled with one's hands dexterous, deft, proficient, handy.
3. expressionless automatic, robotlike, emotionless, unfeeling, impersonal, matter-of-fact, lifeless.
ANT.: 1. manual, hand-powered. 2. inept, bumbling, clumsy. 3. emotional, feeling, spontaneous
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective Performed or performing automatically and impersonally: automatic, perfunctory. See CONCERN.

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