mechanical

About 29.66 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
2. adjective Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on matter).

   mechanical engineering

3. adjective Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).

   mechanical dictionary

4. adjective Done by machine.

   mechanical task

5. adjective Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.

   mechanical arm

6. adjective As if performed by a machine: lifeless, mindless, thoughtless, automatic.

   a mechanical reply to a question

7. adjective Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.

   The pianist was too mechanical.

8. adjective Handy with machines.

   Why don't you ask Joe to fix it? He's very mechanical.

Similar words

mechanized mechanic machinelike mechanistic automatonlike windup robotlike automatic nonhuman mechanically skillful

Often followed by

properties and engineering or energy ventilation engineers means devices

Word family

mechanical bank mechanically mechanicals