clockworklike

Resembling or characteristic of clockwork; with mechanical regularity.

Adjective

  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:

Origin

From clockwork + -like.

Forms

more clockworklike most clockworklike