automatic pilot

Noun

Meaning

a navigational device that automatically keeps ships or planes or spacecraft on a steady course

a cognitive state in which you act without self-awareness

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

george autopilot helmsman coxswain goatherd robot pilot

Hypernyms

device unconsciousness

Examples

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes. Temple Grandin

The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family. Patricia Richardson

she went about her chores on automatic pilot Source: Internet

too much of the writing seems to have been done on automatic pilot Source: Internet

she talked and he dozed and my mind went on autopilot Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

automatic pencil automatic percolator automatic piano automatic pistol automatic powers automatic process