Meaning

(now rare) Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts, Is in base durance and contagious prison, Haled thither by most mechanical and dirty hand.

all manner of silks were already become so vile and abject, that was any man seene to weare them, he was presently judged to be some countrie fellow, or mechanicall man.

mechanical engineering

mechanical dictionary

mechanical task

mechanical arm

a mechanical reply to a question

The pianist was too mechanical.

Word Forms

• more mechanical
• most mechanical
• mechanicals

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Use mechanical when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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