LekhoriLekhoriCapable of operating without external control or intervention.
The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device.
Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
The reaction was automatic: flight!
Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.
Spitting at another player means an automatic red card.
A car with an automatic transmission; the transmission itself.
I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic.
Borrowed from New Latin automaticus, from Classical Latin automatum (“automaton”) + -icus (adjectival suffix), from Ancient Greek αὐτόματον (autómaton), neuter of αὐτόματος (autómatos, “self-moving, m...
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A semi-automatic pistol.
The G-men raiding the speakeasy were equipped with .45 automatics, while the local policemen were carrying revolvers and shotguns.