mechanically
When you do something mechanically, you do it in a routine, automatic way, without much thought or feeling. If you have to get up unusually early in the morning, you might get dressed mechanically, still half-asleep.
People who are tired, stunned, or deeply upset will sometimes do things mechanically, working or performing tasks without emotion. When you act mechanically, you're machine-like. The adverb mechanically comes from the adjective mechanical, which since the 1600's has been used to describe people who "resemble machines." The Greek root is mekhane, "device."
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in a mechanical manner; by a mechanism“this door opens mechanically”
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synonyms:
automatically
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in a machinelike manner; without feeling“he smiled mechanically”
Vocabulary lists containing mechanically
This account of Helen Keller's life is divided into three parts: Part I is Keller's autobiography, which she published in 1903; Part II is a selection of Keller's letters; and Part III consists of supplementary materials by Keller's teacher and lifelong friend, Anne Sullivan.
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