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gemutlich

gemutlich is the alternative spelling of gemütlich.

Meaning of gemütlich

Adjective

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

  1. Comfortable, cosy, pleasant.
    • [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.1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, section 4, page 251
  2. Friendly, genial, cheerful, easy-going.
    • My mother, being gemütlich by nature, would, I believe, have loved to dispense with servants altogether.1929, Robert Graves, chapter 2, in Good-Bye to All That, page 15

Forms of gemutlich

comparativemore gemutlich
superlativemost gemutlich

Origin of gemutlich

Borrowed from German gemütlich.

Questions about gemutlich

What is gemutlich the alternative spelling of?
Gemutlich is the alternative spelling of gemütlich.

Words near gemutlich in the dictionary

  1. gemuetlich
  2. gemuetlichkeit
  3. gemul
  4. gemuls
  5. gemuti
  6. gemutlich
  7. gemutlichkeit
  8. gemwork
  9. gemwright
  10. gemwrights
  11. gemycircularvirus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gemutlich (page history and authors); gemütlich (page history and authors). 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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