clockworklike

adj

clockworklike

adj

Etymology From clockwork + -like.

1

Resembling or characteristic of clockwork; with mechanical regularity.

  • Particularly prose writers have found it possible to set up a disciplined routine enabling them to work with clockworklike punctuality and regularity.1980, Carl Abraham Daniel Fehrman, Poetic Creation, page 138:

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