automatic

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative

more automatic

Superlative

most automatic

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

automatics

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Capable of operating without external control or intervention.

   • The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device.

2. 2.Done out of habit or without conscious thought.

   • Absent-minded doodling is a form of automatic art.
   • The reaction was automatic: flight!

3. 3.Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.

   • Spitting at another player means an automatic red card.

4. 4.Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.

   • Fully automatic weapons cannot be legally owned by private citizens in the US, except in very special circumstances, as by private security companies.

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A car with an automatic transmission; the transmission itself.

   • I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic.

2. 2.A semi-automatic pistol.

   • 'The automatic under his pillow gave the lie to that statement.'
   • "I told him that if my automatic was not a spook-stopper, nothin' else would serve."
   • The G-men raiding the speakeasy were equipped with .45 automatics, while the local policemen were carrying revolvers and shotguns.

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