say it: AW-toh-pahy-luht
autopilot is a noun meaning "a cognitive state in which you act without self-awareness". It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
a navigational device that automatically keeps ships or planes or spacecraft on a steady course
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for autopilot come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.