autotragic

Alternate name for an automatic transmission. The substitution of "tragic" conveys the pointlessness, wastefulness, and ultimately, futility, of aforesaid transmission.

Users are doomed to a sad life of dullness and monotony; they posses no goal other than to get from point A to point B using the minimum of brainpower. There is no joy in their lives. A tragedy for our times.

The red Subaru WRX looked hot, until i realized it was an autotragic. I went home and cursed an uncaring god who has clearly forsaken us.

autotragic by ConcernedInCleveland February 8, 2007

automagical 

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.

automagical by inspire_d March 3, 2004

Automagic 

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

Automagic by Dan December 19, 2003

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."

automagically by Biohertz January 30, 2003

Automagically 

A mix of automatically and magically

Visit our website and we'll automagically steal your data

Automagically by General Serb Nationalist May 8, 2023

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!

automagically by The Grammar Nazi January 13, 2002

autotragically 

When something happens automatically, but in a very bad way

This program that the last guy wrote autotragically "cleaned" all the users' data; you can imagine how that went over.

autotragically by ITAZ September 15, 2010