MECHANICAL

adj. 1 automatic, automated, machine-driven; machine-made Early mechanical toys are sometimes quite intricate This is a mechanical, not a hand-crafted device. 2 automatic, reflex, involuntary, instinctive, routine, habitual, unconscious, perfunctory, machine-like, robot-like Good manners ought to be mechanical Blinking is a mechanical reaction to bright light. 3 impersonal, distant, cold, matter-of-fact, unfeeling, insensible, ritualistic, lifeless, spiritless, dead, inanimate, unanimated, unemotional, unartistic, mechanistic, colourless, uninspired, business-like The girl at the check-out gave us a mechanical smile