English

Alternative forms

• gemuetlich
• gemütlich

Adjective

gemutlich ‎(comparative more gemutlich, superlative most gemutlich)

1. Comfortable, cozy, snug, pleasant.

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

   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, ...

   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.

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,

Related terms

• gemuth
• gemutlichkeit