automatic pilot

1. 1.

   a cognitive state in which you act without self-awareness

   “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”

   Synonymsautopilot

   Broaderunconsciousness
2. 2.

   a navigational device that automatically keeps ships or planes or spacecraft on a steady course

   Synonymsautopilotrobot pilot

   Broaderdevice

   Partsinertial guidance system

Questions about automatic pilot

What does automatic pilot mean?

automatic pilot means "a cognitive state in which you act without self-awareness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for automatic pilot?

Close synonyms include autopilot, autopilot, robot pilot. 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.

Is automatic pilot a common word?

automatic pilot is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.