gemütlich

• gemuetlich, gemutlich

Borrowed from German gemütlich, from Middle High German gemüetlich, from gemüet (“mind, mentality”) + -lich (“-ly”), equivalent to Gemüt (“mind, soul”) +‎ -lich (“-ly”). More at mood, -ly.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡəˈmytlɪç/,^[1] (anglicized) IPA^(key): /ɡəˈmutlɪk/^[1]
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gəmütʹlĭᴋʜ, IPA^(key): /ɡəˈmyːtlɪç/

gemütlich (comparative more gemütlich or gemütlicher, superlative most gemütlich or gemütlichest)

1. Comfortable, cosy, pleasant.
   • 1972, Robertson Davies, The Manticore:

     Judy told me of its charms because its gemütlich, nineteenth-century naïveté appealed strongly to her; either she was innocent in her tastes or else sophisticated in seeing in this humble little work delights and possibilities the other girls missed.

   • 2001 November 25, Hilton Als, “Unhappy Endings”, in The New Yorker‎^[1]:

     For several years, the center of her world has been the gemütlich studio of her Eastern European piano teacher, Mr. Bilderbach, and his wife, Anna.

   • 2023 June 7, Jennifer Szalai, “When ‘Regime Change’ Means Returning America to an Idealized Past”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Underneath all the gemütlich verbs lurks a suggestion that some readers may find chilling: a vision of the “common good” so obvious to Deneen that it’s not up for debate or discussion.

2. 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,

• Gemütlichkeit

• “‖gemütlich, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
  Pronounced: /ɡəˈmyːtlɪç/; etymology: [G.].

From Gemüt +‎ -lich.

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈmyːtlɪç/

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gemütlich (strong nominative masculine singular gemütlicher, comparative gemütlicher, superlative am gemütlichsten)

1. cosy, gemütlich

   Synonym: behaglich

   Die neue Couch ist sehr gemütlich.

   The new couch is very cosy.

• → English: gemütlich
• → Esperanto: gemuta

• “gemütlich” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “gemütlich” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “gemütlich” in Duden online
• “gemütlich” in OpenThesaurus.de