automaton

automaton is a 9-letter English word with 4 senses as intransitive verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action.
2. intransitive verb. A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc.
3. noun. a mechanism that can move automatically

   Synonyms: golem, robot

4. noun. someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way

   "only an automaton wouldn't have noticed"

   Synonyms: zombi, zombie

Synonyms

golem, robot, zombi, zombie

Common word forms

automatons

Words from these letters

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