1
[ adverb ] in a reflex manner

Examples

"he answered automatically"

Used in print

(David Boroff, "Jewish Teen-Age Culture"...)

`` People automatically assume that I 'm in college '' , a nineteen year old machinist observed irritably .

(Dan McLachlan, Jr., "Communication Networks and...)

With troops dispersed on fields_of_battle rather than on the parade_ground , it may seem that a certain amount of monitoring is automatically enforced by the lines of communication .

(William C. Smith, "Why Fear Ideas?"...)

They seem to believe that a person will act automatically as_soon_as he contacts something new .

Frequently we are given assurance that automatically all ideas will be sifted and resifted and in_the_end only the good ones will survive .

Helen_Deutsch informed us ( The_Psychology_of_Women , Vol. 2 , , 434 ) that in all cultures `` the term ' stepmother ' automatically evokes deprecatory implications '' , a conclusion accepted by many .

Related terms

automatic automatic

2
[ adverb ] in a mechanical manner; by a mechanism

Synonyms

mechanically

Examples

"this door opens mechanically"

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