robotic
adjective/roʊˈbɑtɪk/
Frequency rank: #7,344 most common English word
Meaning
resembling or characteristic of a robot; mechanical and lacking natural expression.
Example sentence
Her movements on stage were so robotic that the audience thought she was pretending to be a machine.
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