machinal
French, adjective/ma.ʃi.nal/
machinal is spelled M-A-C-H-I-N-A-L (8 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written French, the 129,327th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Machinal is a French adjective meaning “automatic, unconscious, unvoluntary, mindless” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est semblable au jeu d’une machine, qui est produit par pur mécanisme, sans intention ni réflexion. Sans…”.
What does machinal mean in English?
adjective
- 1
automatic, unconscious, unvoluntary, mindless
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est semblable au jeu d’une machine, qui est produit par pur mécanisme, sans intention ni réflexion. Sans réfléchir, de manière habituelle. Automatique.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of machinal
- machinale feminine
- machinaux masculine plural
- machinales feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce machinal?
- /ma.ʃi.nal/
- \ma.ʃi.nal\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to machinal
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is machinal in French?
machinal appears about once in every 16 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).