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robotic

adjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ɹəʊˈbɒt.ɪk//
  • United Kingdom//ɹəˈbɒt.ɪk//
  • United States//ɹoʊˈbɑtɪk//
  • United States/[ɹoʊˈbɑ.ɾɪk]/
  • Australia//ɹəʉˈbɔt.ɪk//

Of, relating to, or resembling a robot; mechanical, lacking emotion or personality, etc.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, relating to, or resembling a robot; mechanical, lacking emotion or personality, etc.

    You'd cut your own nose off before you'd let me get the credit for solving robotic telepathy.

    In Vice President Al Gore's campaign to change his robotic image, nothing may have helped more than the big smooch.

    President Donald Trump’s presidential memorandum ordering an investigation of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and his use of the autopen […] is also nonsensical fan service, amplifying addled MAGA conspiracy theories that contend, with a straight face, that Biden was really a robotic clone.

Etymology

From robot + -ic. Coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1941 in his short story Liar!.

Forms

comparative
more robotic
superlative
most robotic
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).