automatically adverb (INDEPENDENTLY)
B2 If a machine or device does something automatically, it does it independently, without human control:
More examples
- If you are continuing on an onward flight, your bags will be transferred automatically.
- The clock automatically readjusts when you enter a new time zone.
- The data is validated automatically by the computer after it has been entered.
- Does this camera wind on automatically?
- If the cabin depressurizes, oxygen masks will automatically drop down.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
automatically adverb (NOT CONSCIOUSLY)
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
- ad hoc
- ad lib
- ad-lib
- adventitious
- against (all) the odds/against all odds idiom
- all at once idiom
- all of a sudden idiom
- it's just one of those things idiom
- just like that idiom
- make sth up as you go along idiom
- muddle
- muddle along
- reckon
- sharply
- spur
- summary
- unawares
- undreamed of
- unexpected
- unforeseen
automatically adverb (CERTAINLY)
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- all roads lead to Rome idiom
- automatic
- be (only) a matter of time idiom
- be damned if you do and damned if you don't idiom
- be nothing for it idiom
- be part and parcel of sth idiom
- damned
- doom
- fate
- fated
- implacable
- inevitably
- inexorable
- it can't be helped idiom
- matter
- relentless
- remorseless
- seal
- unavoidable
- unstoppable
