automagically

automagically
1. (automagically) (6221↑, 1880↓)
adv. Something that happens automatically, but that also has some mysterious, "magical" element to it. "Smart" appliances, features, etc. that do intelligent things with less help than you might expect.

I installed Windows, and it screwed up my system automagically\!

Author: The Grammar Nazi http://automagically.urbanup.com/1337
2. (automagically) (274↑, 48↓)
Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason (typically because it is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even too trivial), the speaker doesn't feel like explaining to you. This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s in jargon and probably much earlier. The word `automagic' occurred in advertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late 1940s.

"The C-INTERCAL compiler generates C, then automagically invokes cc(1) to produce an executable."

3. (Automagically) (83↑, 44↓)
a process that happens automatically but cannot be explained to the processee how it actually happened.

Hey man, I just got a fax in my email inbox automagically, wtf??

4. (Automagically) (38↑, 30↓)
Used to explain the unexplainable behavior of something. Usually refers to computers.

"I tried it 15 times, and now, for some reason, it just automagically works \!"

5. (automagically) (15↑, 11↓)
When an action automatically happens and you are amazed how it happened.

The words automagically tabed in the Microsoft Word document when I clicked ok.

6. (Automagically) (5↑, 3↓)
a. The action of causing processes to occur in the background without end users being aware of what is happening. b. Making things work without requiring user intervention. c. Fixing something without anyone seeing how it was done.

When I left work last night my [computer] [program] would not [launch], but our [technology] guy, Harold, fixed it by the next morning. The program automagically launched when I turn on my computer.

7. (automagically) (3↑, 3↓)
to perceive something has happening all on its own, as if by magic; a way to describe something that is both automatic and magical

your such a pig, do you think this place just cleans itself automagically or what?

8. (automagically) (4↑, 4↓)
pertaining to the one's belief that the best will happen with no effort on her/his part.

The 2011 NYS budge will automagically appear (despite the Legislature failing to create it).

9. (automagically) (3↑, 4↓)
Some thing happens automatically like magic. It is the combination of automatic and magic

The dishes got washed automagically.

10. (Automagically) (1↑, 4↓)
When something predetermined happens that appears to happen by chance.

This lady in the store was about to make a scene, when automagically the manager and security show up.

11. (Automagically) (7↑, 27↓)
When doors open mysteriously or objects begin to work on their own.

The doors at Disney's Phillharmagic show opened "automagically" and I was amazed\!

12. (automagically) (16↑, 76↓)
something happening without doing something else to make it happen

sarah: oh my god, she passed the test\! beth: obviously she passed it automagically, she's the teacher's favourite student\!

13. (automagically) (35↑, 95↓)
Extremely annoying word computer nerds use to describe things software does by itself and with no exception would be far better replaced with the word 'automatically'.

The system will automagically create the next user id number for you.

14. (automagically) (31↑, 92↓)
Correction of my own entry below: Pointless and pretentious word used to add no meaning at all to normal english sentences pertaining to the kind of automated proceedure computers were designed to do right from the very beginning of their invention. Almost every sentence in which this word appears can be improved upon by removing it.

"Sign in [check-box] automagically for 2 weeks", from bebo's sign in page. "Palette Generator: Automagically create a harmonious color palette from a photograph", from Big Huge Labs page.

15. (automagically) (8↑, 100↓)
Eg. soemthing that works automatically, such as a Microsoft (tm) excell macro, or a car motor. somethign that works automatically, but seams magical (eg. erections)

Dude, i hate you, your macros are automajic today

16. (automagically) (20↑, 114↓)
A phrase used by Mr. Venier, a teacher at Glendale High School, because he is too intellectually impared to think up a word for something that astounds the senses.

Mr. Venier : Stick the marshmallow in the microwave, give it two minutes, and [automagically], it explodes\! Student: Isn't there some sort of electromagnetic radiation behind that? Mr. Venier: I don't know. It's just an automagical process\!

Author: Hitler of Grammatical Nazi's http://automagically.urbanup.com/1060296
Related: magically, auto, automatically, automatic, magic, computer, dictionary, pointless, urban dictionary
Last updated: 2012.02.29

Urban English dictionary. 2013.

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