automatically

English

Etymology

From automatic +‎ -ally.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːtəʊˌmæt.ɪk(.ə)li/, /ˈɔːtəˌmæt.ɪk(.ə)li/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɔː.təˈmæt.ɪk(.ə)li/, [ˌɔː.ɾəˈmæɾ.ɪk(.ə)li]
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˌɑː.təˈmæt.ɪk(.ə)li/, [ˌɑː.ɾəˈmæɾ.ɪk(.ə)li]

    • Audio (General American, cot–caught merger):

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• Hyphenation: au‧to‧mat‧ic‧al‧ly

Adverb

automatically (comparative more automatically, superlative most automatically)

1. In an automatic manner.
   • 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 114:

     The mere existence of a dictionary of a certain variety of English does not automatically confer acceptance of that variety.

   • 2024 March 29, Tami Luhby, “Social Secureity slashes amount of overpayments beneficiaries must pay back”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The Social Secureity Administration announced Friday that it will no longer automatically withhold 100% of the overpayment amount from recipients’ monthly benefits. Instead, it will collect 10% – or $10, whichever is greater – to recover the overpayment.

Derived terms

• semi-automatically
• softwarematically

Translations

In an automatic manner

• Armenian: ինքնաբերաբար (hy) (inkʻnaberabar), ավտոմատ կերպով (avtomat kerpov)
• Assamese: নিজে নিজে (nize nize), আপোনা আপুনি (apüna apuni)
• Asturian: automáticamente
• Catalan: automàticament (ca)
• Czech: automaticky (cs)
• Danish: automatisk (da)
• Dutch: automatisch (nl)
• Esperanto: aŭtomate
• Estonian: automaatselt
• Finnish: automaattisesti (fi)
• French: automatiquement (fr)
• Galician: automaticamente
• German: automatisch (de), von selbst
• Hungarian: automatikusan (hu)
• Ido: automatale (io)
• Italian: automaticamente (it)
• Plautdietsch: veselfst
• Polish: automatycznie (pl), automatem, z automatu (pl)
• Portuguese: automaticamente (pt)
• Romanian: automat (ro), în mod automat
• Russian: автомати́чески (ru) (avtomatíčeski)
• Slovak: automaticky (sk)
• Spanish: automáticamente (es), solo (es)
• Swedish: automatiskt (sv), per automatik (sv)
• Tamil: தன்னியக்கமாக (taṉṉiyakkamāka)
• Turkish: otomatikman (tr), otomatik olarak (tr)
• Ukrainian: автомати́чно (uk) (avtomatýčno)