machinelike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "She achieved the movement by propelling herself through a series of balances, her arms and legs moving slowly and continuously, almost machinelike."
- "The latter, for example, are overheard dismissing the former as mere “quantoids”—as if quantitative methods turn those who deploy them into machinelike expellers of numeric waste."
Etymology
Etymology tree Middle French machinebor. English machine Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English machinelike From machine + -like.
Inflected Forms
more machinelike (comparative)
most machinelike (superlative)