bionic

Related to bionics.

Adjective

  1. Related to bionics.
  2. Having been enhanced by electronic, mechanical, or mechatronical parts; cyborg.
  3. Superhuman.
    • Now baby, don't you know that our rhymes are so bionic / Don't listen too hard, don't be supersonic - 1988, “Supersonic”, performed by J. J. Fad:
    • Entering womanhood is awesome, but the learning, growing, and obstacle facing are not going to stop. As you grow into womanhood, it's going to seem as if the world wants you to be bionic—be stronger, faster, and...
    • But to hear the presidential physician tell it, Trump is bionic. In a news conference, Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson hailed Trump's health as "excellent" eight times. - 2018 January 21, Virginia Heffernan, “Trump's jargon is...

Origin

Blend of bio- + electronic. The superhuman sense is attributed to the TV shows The Six Million Dollar Man (1973–1978) and The Bionic Woman (1976–1978).

Forms

more bionic most bionic

Related

bion

Derived

bionically bionic ear lesbionic optobionic photobionic