MECHANISTIC Antonyms

• characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality

• of or relating to dynamics

• (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being

• an efficient incentive

• a substance that is fluid at room temperature and pressure

• continuous amorphous matter that tends to flow and to conform to the outline of its container: a liquid or a gas

• subject to change; variable

• characteristic of a fluid; capable of flowing and easily changing shape

• smooth and unconstrained in movement

• in cash or easily convertible to cash

• affording change (especially in social status)

• not limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint

• unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion

• not held in servitude

• people who are free

• without restraint

• costing nothing

• not occupied or in use

• not fixed in position

• not taken up by scheduled activities

• completely wanting or lacking

• not literal

• grant freedom to; free from confinement

• relieve from

• remove or force out from a position

• grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to

• make (information) available for publication

• free from obligations or duties

• free or remove obstruction from

• let off the hook

• part with a possession or right

• release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition

• make (assets) available

• ahead of the times

• being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before

• spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency

• obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation

• in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature

• existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation

• existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical

• (of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone

• (of a parent or child) related by blood; genetically related

• someone regarded as certain to succeed

• a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat

• (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake

• functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies

• unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct

• (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes

• being talented through inherited qualities

• free from artificiality

• relating or belonging to the class of chemical compounds having a carbon basis

• being or relating to or derived from or having properties characteristic of living organisms

• involving or affecting physiology or bodily organs

• a fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter

• of or relating to foodstuff grown or raised without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides or hormones

• simple and healthful and close to nature

• constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)

• being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of

• an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made

• something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies

• preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed

• (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary

• not derived or copied or translated from something else

• happening or arising without apparent external cause

• said or done without having been planned or written in advance