automatic

1. 1.

   light machine gun

   Synonymsautomatic riflemachine rifle

   Broaderautomatic firearmmachine gun

   Narrowerassault rifleBrowning automatic rifle
2. 2.

   a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released

   Synonymsautomatic pistol

   Broaderpistolautomatic firearm

Other forms of automatic

plural

automatics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about automatic

What does automatic mean?

automatic means "operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in automatic?

automatic has 4 syllables: au-to-mat-ic. The stress falls on "mat". In IPA it is /ˌɔtəˈmætɪk/.

What is another word for automatic?

Close synonyms include automatonlike, machinelike, robotlike, robotic, reflex. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of automatic?

The recorded antonyms are manual.

Is automatic a common word?

automatic is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with automatic?

32 words rhyme with automatic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.