Sunday, August 22, 2010

Automagic

I may have invented this word today, but I feel like I've heard it somewhere before. A quick web search didn't turn up this meaning, so here you go:
automagic, adjective. Automatic to a seemingly magical degree.

Example: Look, I don't know how the software does that; it just happens automagically.

Perhaps Arthur C. Clarke would approve.

2 comments:

  1. Sorry to say that it's not your coinage. I've been hearing it for years, and it even has its own Wiktionary entry: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/automagic

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  2. Yeah, I thought I'd heard it before, but I wasn't sure it wasn't in my head. At least I made the same Clark reference as the Wiktionary.

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