Synonyms of clocklike

clocklike

adjective

as in accurate

Related Words

• accurate
• correct
• precise
• standardized
• exact
• structured
• specific
• detailed
• systematic
• regularized
• ordered
• orderly
• methodical
• organized
• regular
• systematized
• neat

Dissimilar Words

• haphazard
• irregular
• disorganized
• unsystematic
• nonsystematic
• chaotic
• hit-or-miss
• disordered
• disorderly
• patternless
• immethodical
• planless
• unordered
• systemless
• shambolic

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of clocklike

The woodblock pulse is sometimes taken up by clanging cowbell, slashed chords, or the ominous, clocklike ticking of bowsticks against strings. — Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 1 Apr. 2022

While each change may be novel, major life transitions happen with clocklike regularity. — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2020

Time cells fire at successive moments but do not track time in a simple clocklike fashion. — Matthew Schafer, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2020

The radio emissions themselves, Dr. Chatterjee said, resemble the blasts from pulsars — the spinning neutron stars that emit clocklike pulses of radiation and whose discovery in 1968 did indeed elicit speculation about little green men. — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2017

As a loose approximation, aging is clocklike because there’s a progressiveness to it. — Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2016

As its inflating interior forms a new universe, its energy incrementally ticks down in clocklike fashion each time the expanding circle winds around the cylinder’s circumference and overlaps itself. — Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, 23 Apr. 2016

As its inflating interior forms a new universe, its energy incrementally ticks down in clocklike fashion each time the expanding circle winds around the cylinder’s circumference and overlaps itself. — Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2016