gemutlich

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A form of gemütlich — Comfortable, cosy, pleasant.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivegemutlich (comparative more gemutlich, superlative most gemutlich)

comparative more gemutlich · superlative most gemutlich

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of gemütlich.

    The censors cut one in which Judd Hirsch, who plays Mr. Goldblum's gemutlich, Yiddish-spouting father,

    1997 January 26, Judith Miller, “FILM: Making Money Abroad, And Also a Few Enemies”, in The New York Times, New York, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2020
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    However, to any Nation readers who think that gemutlich is not “a living word" I am glad to be able to inform them that Harold Nicolson in his volume Good Behaviour has a whole chapter on Gemutlichkeit, ...

    1964, Nation, Issues 135-159, Digitized edition, Nation Review, published 2011, page 98

    …and there's always a buzz of conversation and somebody's playing the piano, and it's gemutlich. / To one of those particularly gemutlich evenings I invited a stockbroker who lived in Guilford, and he arrived with a lady named Gladys Lloyd.

    1973, Edward G. Robinson, Leonard Spigelgass, All My Yesterdays, Digitized edition (Autobiography), Hawthorn Books, published 2008, page 80

Origin

  1. Germangemütlich
  2. Englishgemutlich

Borrowed from German gemütlich.

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Chicago

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