gemütlich
/ɡəˈmytlɪç/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Example Sentences
- "[She] takes splendid care of her husband, and looks after their five-room apartment, with its gemütlich mélange of plump hassocks and squashy chairs and cream-colored lace window curtains."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "My mother, being gemütlich by nature, would, I believe, have loved to dispense with servants altogether."
- "The censors cut one in which Judd Hirsch, who plays Mr. Goldblum's gemutlich, Yiddish-spouting father,"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɡəˈmytlɪç/
- British English: /ɡəˈmyːtlɪç/
Inflected Forms
more gemütlich (comparative)
gemütlicher (comparative)
most gemütlich (superlative)
gemütlichest (superlative)
gemuetlich (alternative)
gemutlich (alternative)