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Antonyms for automatons

Grammar : Noun
Spell : aw-tom-uh-ton, -tn
Phonetic Transcription : ɔˈtɒm əˌtɒn, -tn

Definition of automatons

Origin :
  • 1610s, from Latin automaton (Suetonius), from Greek automaton, neuter of automatos "self-acting," from autos "self" (see auto-) + matos "thinking, animated, willing," from PIE *mn-to-, from root *men- "to think" (see mind (n.)).
  • As in machine : noun device that performs a task
  • As in machine : noun person who acts automatically
Example sentences :
  • They looked like automatons: beings from whom life had been drained.
  • Extract from : « Pirates of the Gorm » by Nat Schachner
  • Up to the stroke of four the men worked like automatons—chip-chip-chipping.
  • Extract from : « Flamsted quarries » by Mary E. Waller
  • These automatons, we are told nevertheless, are very condescending.
  • Extract from : « Imaginary Conversations and Poems » by Walter Savage Landor
  • Those people are no longer the automatons they were in 1814.
  • Extract from : « Celebration in Baltimore of the Triumph of Liberty in France » by William Wirt
  • The workmen looked like soldiers and behaved like automatons.
  • Extract from : « Meccania » by Owen Gregory
  • It is the cabinet thinkers who construct a universe of automatons.
  • Extract from : « The Gamekeeper at Home » by Richard Jefferies
  • They were not acted upon against their own will, or as automatons.
  • Extract from : « Defense of the Faith and the Saints (Volume 1 of 2) » by B. H. Roberts
  • We walked, we spoke, but like automatons, for our souls were groaning with anguish.
  • Extract from : « How France Built Her Cathedrals » by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
  • Only automatons will agree to the lengthening of skirts from the knee to the ankle.
  • Extract from : « Nonsenseorship » by G. G. Putnam and Others
  • The human race is seemingly, in a large measure, a collection of automatons.
  • Extract from : « Subconscious Religion » by Russell H. Conwell

Synonyms for automatons

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