AUTOMATIC

adj. 1 self-acting, self-governing, self-regulating, mechanical, robot, automated Many modern cars are equipped with an automatic choke 2 mechanical, involuntary, unconscious, instinctive or instinctual, natural, spontaneous, impulsive, conditioned, reflex, robot-like, Slang knee-jerk Flinching is an automatic reaction to a threatening gesture 3 unavoidable, inevitable, inescapable, ineluctable It is automatic for the tax inspector to suspect people of hiding something