Wiktionary
automatonlike
a. Like an automaton; robotic.
WordNet
automatonlike
adj. like the unthinking functioning of a machine; "an automatic `thank you'"; "machinelike efficiency" [syn: automatic, machinelike, robotlike]
Usage examples of "automatonlike".
However, the type of tedious, automatonlike, internal observation that was used in the introspectionist school was so boring and unfruitful that even James dissociated himself from such experimental research.