automagically

jargon /aw-toh-maj'i-klee/ or /aw-toh-maj'i-k*l-ee/

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.

E.g. "The C-INTERCAL compiler generates C, then automagically

invokes cc to produce an executable."

See magic.

[Jargon File]

(2001-05-18)