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cushy

Syllables: cu·shy/ˈkʊʃi/

cushy adjective: making few demands; comfortable, easy.

Adjective

cushy (comparative cushier or more cushy, superlative cushiest or most cushy)

  1. (informal) Making few demands; comfortable, easy.
    • This is a really cushy job. Mostly I just sit around drinking tea.
    • But if it really is such a cushy number, why doesn’t Britain have enough drivers – and what does it take to join their ranks?2025 May 11, Gwyn Topham, “‘It’s an illogical job’: Why driving a train isn’t as cushy as it might seem”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  2. (US) Comfortable, often in a way that will suit a person's body; ergonomic.
    • cushy sedans for executive types.

cushy meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

cushy in Urdu

آرام دہ

cushy in Malayalam

easy, undemanding, comfortable
സൗകര്യപ്രദവും സുഖകരവുമായ, സുഖകരമായ, സൗകര്യപ്രദമായ, അധികം ക്ലേശമില്ലാത്ത, സുകരം, വലിയ ആയാസമില്ലാത്ത

Examples of cushy in a sentence

  • The mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay.
  • Had she already managed to machinate a cushy job for her husband?
  • After all, being a United States senator is a pretty cushy gig.

All 10 example sentences with cushy

Forms of cushy

comparativecushier
comparativemore cushy
superlativecushiest
superlativemost cushy

Origin of cushy

Borrowed from Hindustani خوشی (xośī) / ख़ुशी (xuśī), from Classical Persian خوشی (xuši, “happiness”).

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Questions about cushy

What does cushy mean?
Cushy means making few demands; comfortable, easy.
What is cushy in Urdu?
Cushy in Urdu is آرام دہ. See Cushy meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is cushy?
Cushy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce cushy?
Cushy is pronounced /ˈkʊʃi/ (UK).

Words near cushy in the dictionary

  1. cushoon
  2. cushoons
  3. cushtae
  4. cushtaes
  5. cushty
  6. cushy
  7. cushy number
  8. cushy numbers
  9. Cusic
  10. Cusick
  11. Cusick's biscuitroot

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cushy (page history and authors); cushy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cushy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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