Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gemutlich

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gemut-lich
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Alternative spelling of gemütlich.

Example Sentences

"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, ..."
"…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."
"The censors cut one in which Judd Hirsch, who plays Mr. Goldblum's gemutlich, Yiddish-spouting father,"

Etymology

Borrowed from German gemütlich.

Inflected Forms

more gemutlich (comparative) most gemutlich (superlative)

Questions

What does gemutlich mean?: Alternative spelling of gemütlich.
Where does gemutlich come from?: Borrowed from German gemütlich.

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