Mechanical vs Spiritless - What's the difference?
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Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
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Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on mass).
Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).
Done by machine.
Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.
As if performed by a machine: lifeless or mindless.
(of a person) Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.
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, title= (informal) Handy with machines.
Lacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion. Enervated.
:The team played a spiritless first half, just going through the motions. But the realization they were playing for their sick friend energized them for the second half.
Mechanical is a related term of spiritless.
As adjectives the difference between mechanical and spiritless
is that mechanical is characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar while spiritless is lacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion enervated.mechanical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- all manner of silks were already become so vile and abject, that was any man seene to weare them, he was presently judged to be some countrie fellow, or mechanicall man.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}