Define Automagically Meaning

Automagically
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."
By Karole
Automagically
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!
By Kyrstin
Automagically
When you have coffee, work gets done automagically

Wow, how did you get 30 hours of work done in 5?

Automagically.
By Adiana
Automagically
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.
By Bonnibelle
Automagically
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).
By Lelia
Automagically
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?
By Almeria
Automagically
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.
By Brandea
Automagically
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.
By Demetris
Automagically
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!
By Bridget
Automagically
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!
By Cindie