mechanical

  1. Adjective.  (context, now) Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
  2. Adjective.  Related to mechanics (gloss, the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on mass) .
  3. Adjective.  Related to mechanics (gloss, the design and construction of machines) .
  4. Adjective.  Done by machine.
  5. Adjective.  Using mechanics (gloss, the design and construction of machines) : being a machine.
  6. Adjective.  As if performed by a machine: lifeless or mindless.
  7. Adjective.  (context, of a person) Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.
  8. Adjective.  (informal) Handy with machines.

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