[
  {
    "word": "automatic",
    "phonetic": "/\u02cc\u0254\u02d0t\u0259\u02c8m\u00e6t\u026ak/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u02cc\u0254\u02d0t\u0259\u02c8m\u00e6t\u026ak/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u02cc\u0254t\u0259\u02c8m\u00e6t\u026ak/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/automatic-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=718897",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A car with automatic transmission.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A semi-automatic pistol.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The G-men raiding the speakeasy were equipped with .45 automatics, while the local policemen were carrying revolvers and shotguns."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": [
          "manual transmission",
          "standard transmission",
          "stick",
          "stickshift"
        ]
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Capable of operating without external control or intervention.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Done out of habit or without conscious thought.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Absent-minded doodling is a form of automatic art."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Spitting at another player means an automatic red card."
          },
          {
            "definition": "(of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Fully automatic weapons cannot be legally owned by private citizens in the US, except in very special circumstances, as by private security companies."
          },
          {
            "definition": "(of a handgun) An autoloader; a semi-automatic or self-loading pistol, as opposed to a revolver or other manually actuated handgun, which fires one shot per pull of the trigger; distinct from machine guns.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The US Army adopted John Browning's M1911 pistol as its sidearm, chambered in .45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol)."
          },
          {
            "definition": "(of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "instinctive",
          "perfunctory",
          "thoughtless"
        ],
        "antonyms": [
          "manual",
          "non-automatic",
          "voluntary"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/automatic"
    ]
  }
]