what does automatic pilot mean?
AUTOMATIC PILOT as NOUN
- Meaning
- a navigational device that automatically keeps ships or planes or spacecraft on a steady course
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Hypernyms(s) automatic pilot is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
- Meaning
- a cognitive state in which you act without self-awareness
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Usage Example(s)
- she went about her chores on automatic pilot
- too much of the writing seems to have been done on automatic pilot
- she talked and he dozed and my mind went on autopilot
Hypernyms(s) automatic pilot is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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