gemütlich – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of gemütlich

Adjective: gemütlich

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativegemütlicher
Superlativegemütlichest

Perifrastic

Comparativemore gemütlich
Superlativemost gemütlich

Sample 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. [1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, section 4, page 251:]
  • 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. [1972, Robertson Davies, The Manticore:]
  • 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. [2001 November 25, Hilton Als, “Unhappy Endings”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2017:]
  • 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. [2023 June 7, Jennifer Szalai, “When ‘Regime Change’ Means Returning America to an Idealized Past”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2023:]
  • 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:]
  • The censors cut one in which Judd Hirsch, who plays Mr. Goldblum's gemutlich, Yiddish-spouting father, [1997 January 26, Judith Miller, “FILM: Making Money Abroad, And Also a Few Enemies”, in The New York Times, New York, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2020:]

Adjectives inflected like gemütlich

wholsom, seldom, scared, solemn, silent, beloved, uptight, perfect, useless, up-tight, selfish, distinct, discreet, Dutch, reckless, bumfuck, worthless, slender, faithfull, shallow, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German gemütlich, from Middle High German gemüetlich, from gemüet (“mind, mentality”) + -lich (“-ly”), equivalent to Gemüt (“mind, soul”) + -lich (“-ly”). More at mood, -ly.