mechanical man

1. 1.

   an automaton that resembles a human being

   Synonymsandroidhumanoid

   Broaderautomaton

Questions about mechanical man

What does mechanical man mean?

mechanical man means "an automaton that resembles a human being".

What is another word for mechanical man?

Close synonyms include android, humanoid. 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 mechanical man a common word?

mechanical man 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.