loungy

comparative loungier · superlative loungiest · alternative loungey

1. informalcharacteristic of a lounge; informally comfortable

   Loungy, worn furniture, retro art and chilled music make this a popular hangout with students and a young crowd.

   2007, Sarah Johnstone, Europe on a shoestring

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   The huge space is like an auditorium, with multilevel loungy seating areas looking down onto one of Singapore's best soundstages and dance floors.

   2005, Jennifer Eveland, Frommer's Singapore & Malaysia

2. informalResembling or characteristic of lounge music.

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   In its lean arrangements, her band conjured both traditions and possibilities: the tambourine and strummed cavaquinho (miniature guitar) of samba for “Na Gangorra,” a loungey acid-jazz pulse and hints of reggae for “Vento No Canavial,” African-tinged funk in the Vinicius de Moraes-Baden Powell song “Consolaçã” and in the French songwriter Camille Dalmais’s “1, 2, 3.”

   2009 March 16, Jon Pareles, “Brazilian Pop: Sambas With a Twist”, in New York Times