gemutlich
See also: gemütlich
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From German gemütlich (“comfortable, cozy, genial, pleasant”), from Middle High German gemüetlich, from gemüet (“mind, mentality”) + -lich (“-ly”), equivalent to Gemüt (“mind, soul”) + -lich (“-ly”). More at mood, -ly.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gəmütʹlĭĸʜ, IPA(key): /ɡəˈmyːtlɪç/
Adjective
gemutlich (comparative more gemutlich, superlative most gemutlich)
- Comfortable, cozy, snug, pleasant.
- 1973, Edward G. Robinson, Leonard Spigelgass, All My Yesterdays (Autobiography), Digitized edition, Hawthorn Books, published 2008, page 80:
- …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.
- Friendly, genial, cheerful, easy-going.
- 1997 January 26, Judith Miller, “FILM: Making Money Abroad, And Also a Few Enemies”, in New York Times, New York:
- The censors cut one in which Judd Hirsch, who plays Mr. Goldblum's gemutlich, Yiddish-spouting father,
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Related terms
- gemuth
- gemutlichkeit
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