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Stepford definition

☆ Step·ford (step′fərd)

adjective

resembling an automaton in being conformist and submissive, unemotional, mechanical, etc.

Etymology: after the title characters in The Stepford Wives (1972), science-fiction novel by Ira Levin, programmed to be traditional, perfectly compliant helpmates

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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