Did you by any chance mean automatically?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- adv. In an automagical manner.
Etymologies
- automagical + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Acknowledging that it is a decade or so old, I much prefer the phrase automagically to automatically.”
“If you add the new G_SATELLITE_3D_MAP map type to your MapsAPI initialization code your site will "automagically" support Google Earth via a button in the maps view”
“The big attraction, I assure you, is not the fact that UGC is so good or done by pros, but that it's free, possibly explosive, and can be "automagically" repurposed and sold to customers.”
“Aside from being the man who coined the term "automagically," Bucher was a founding member of WebTV, which was acquired by Microsoft.”
“Now, you can sit back and modulate the brakes while the car "automagically" steers itself through the reversing maneuver.”
“Win XP on this computer, and my browser somehow doesn't "automagically" recognise it, yet I succeeded to view the text in Word it did not list the font in the font pull-down menu either, I had to write the font name "Dilyana" manually! but now it works”
“As a bonus, if you visit Disney's welcome desk at the airport when you arrive, they'll put you in the system to "automagically" pull your boarding pass 23 hours and 59 minutes before your departure flight.”
“Sure, having it happen "automagically" is better, but the most important thing is that it just gets done.”
“I got into SCSI at the right time, after the time when you needed to sacrifice a chicken to get a SCSI peripheral installed properly, but just before it became almost plug and play, and the Seagate-Adaptec solutions started using the term "automagically" for semi-PnP setups.”
“The application 'automagically' imports travel itineraries for hands-off travel management.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘automagically’.
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longer new words in Scrabble
these were collected recently
mostly from Chambers and some
from Collins dictionaries.acathisia, acathisias, acentrics, aciclovir, aciclovirs, acidically, acinetobacter, acinetobacters, acrophobics, aculeates, advertizings, aerodigestive and 1320 more...
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sniglets
sniglets and neologisms | protologisms
random neologisms, compound words plus more
( randomness )bimp, darf, sketchy, blurfle, doork, elbonics, facon, fuffle, gibble, gyroped, hangle, passhole and 214 more...
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If it's magic...
magic, Magic, magic wand, magic carpet, magician, Magic Johnson, magic hour, magical realism, Magic: The Gathering, Magic Kingdom, Magic Eye, Magic Bus and 94 more...
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mcd's list
words I lurve
antidisestablishm..., lurve, lawd, spooning with angels, arcane, tomfoolery, sheer pocketry, awesomegasm, beeline, dogleg, cultivating perce..., heavens to betsy and 3 more...
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oona's list
mongolian, inuit, vagabond, strange, hypersensitive, sarcastic,
hooliganisms, manak, redonkulous, extract, educe, omphalos, luftmensch, obsequious, missive, heteronyms, homographs, caucasian and 34 more...
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like words duh
almost-words teens/tweens use --or -- actualy words they use incorrectly
duh, no duh, duh, no duh, gwon, sh'up, nu-uh, iknow-a, no-a, ow-a, yup, s'up, c'moooon and 25 more...
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Words grabbed from real life conversa...
If I've seen it, heard it, or marvelled at it, I'll stick it here.
cruft, ermine, redundant, shakespearean, camino, marvelous, stupendous, chagrin, shaven, sleek, smug, stillness and 325 more...
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hedges's Words
wii, crepuscule, adumbrate, concatenation, sufi, qawwali, furry, riot, mellifluous, conspiracy, etymology, tea cozy and 369 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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Words I just like
hobbitry, obfuscate, moribund, bally, idleness, ale, lostwithiel, elfin, spiffing, wayfaring, methinks, abstruse and 123 more...
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neologisms I like
nimrod, snarky, painbow, interrobang, hoser, kooky, craptastic, preggers, asshat, brainiac, shoegaze, skanker-sore and 146 more...
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desultory, mawkish, imbroglio, ubiquitous, lurid, automagically, catacombs, coalesce, behemoth, zaftig, cockamamie, facetious and 3 more...
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Alpha
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aasvogel, aberuncator, abibliophobia, abscission, absquatulate, abstemious, abstergent, abstriction, acalculia, acanthus, achillean, acuminate and 86 more...
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Newer
madeupical, brainscapes, snoozify, pinkified, elephant flow, bazillion, bunspace, wordoid, automagically, frugalista, residustrial, fimble-famble and 8 more...
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Newfangled Thingamabobs
Words that are new in my time. Not meant to be comprehensive, this is a list that makes me remember where I was when I first saw it and/or heard it. Words that stick out in my memory.
bushism, reaganomics, hella, automagically, squick, crunt, blam, dvd, compact disc, phishing, betamax
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Factory Joe's Dictionary
The favorite and phantasmagorical word pickings of Chris Messina.
transmogrification, placelessness, surreal, believe, ambidextrous, brinkmanship, utter, sasquatch, serendipitous, opinion, ayatollah, skirmish and 66 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for automagically.
ipodrulz I used to hate this word. It was when I started using it subconsciously did I realize I liked it. Apr 26, 2009
rolig This seems like a good candidate for Sionnach's eggcorns and effles list. Dec 11, 2008
dontcry Quite yer whinin'! It's a perfectly accurate, utilitarian and delightfully descriptive "word" my kids use to describe a process they don't understand.
How does the lamppost come on just at dusk each day? It's automagic! Dec 11, 2008
niels I use this word when cynicism is the order of the day:
The crotchety old professors thought the Internet would steal their content automagically. Nov 14, 2008
spadly Tell me this isn't a real word now... Nov 14, 2008
bilby Ah. May 7, 2008
super-echo I dislike this word. Intensely. May 7, 2008