mechanically

Adverb

Meaning

In a mechanical manner.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

automatically driver mechanical regularly naturally automatic systematically chemically scientifically mechanic industrially instinctively involuntarily rote clockwork
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Antonyms

carefully deliberately manually randomly incorrectly arbitrarily
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Phrases with the word

mechanically separated meat mechanically produced mechanically made mechanically alter not mechanically non-mechanically

Examples

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. D. H. Lawrence

My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul. Karel Čapek

Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically. Jean Cocteau

.. [I] reprobate the mechanically systematic approach of drawing.... so generally diffused. I think it can produce nothing but manner and sameness. J. M. W. Turner

The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair. Alice Munro

I cannot emphasize enough that I do not start with a plan or agenda and mechanically manipulate characters and events to carry it out. I set characters in motion, and let them teach me what the book is. Lois McMaster Bujold

Close letter words and terms

mechanicality mechanicalization mechanicalize mechanically alter mechanically made mechanically operated