automatically

au-to-mat-i-cal-ly · adverb

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Definitions

adverb

  1. 1.

    In a way that operates by itself without direct human control.

  2. 2.

    Without conscious thought or intention; spontaneously.

  3. 3.

    As a necessary consequence or result.

Related words

Antonyms: deliberately, manually
See also: automated, automatic, manually
Synonyms: instinctively, mechanically, spontaneously

Etymology

From "automatic" + the adverb suffix "-ally," ultimately from Greek automatos ("acting of itself").