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defines something that happens automatically but you can't quite explain how it happens or the explanation is too complex.
Also, can be used as "automagically".
Babies are created automagically.
Airplanes fly automagically.
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1. adj, a task/activity that is so complex or so boring/uncomfortable that one doesn't feel like explaining it or bothering to look up how it works.
2. when something just happens
I DON'T KNOW WHY YOUR KIDS LOOK LIKE ME! It just happened automagically!
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A common slang word for "automatic". Often used in webblogs and other forms of internet communication.
The phone and the car connect automagically.
Google's corrective spelling feature is automagic.
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A technology that works but is too complicated to explain or understand
When you click on the send b utton your email goes to the recipient. It's automagic
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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."
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A mix of automatically and magically
Visit our website and we'll automagically steal your data
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!
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