gemütlichadj.
/ɡəˈm(j)uːtlɪx/ Pleasant, cheerful; cosy, snug, homely; genial, goodnatured.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [adjective]
winsomea900
sweetc900
likingeOE
i-quemec950
lieflyOE
winlyOE
hereOE
thankfulc1000
merryOE
queemc1175
beina1200
willea1200
leesomec1200
savouryc1225
estea1250
i-wilc1275
winc1275
welcomea1300
doucea1350
well-pleasingc1350
acceptablea1382
pleasablea1382
pleasanta1382
pleaseda1382
acceptedc1384
amiablec1384
well-likinga1387
queemfulc1390
flattering1393
pleasinga1398
well-queeminga1400
comelyc1400
farrandc1400
greable1401
goodlyc1405
amicable?a1425
placablec1429
amene1433
winful1438
listyc1440
dulcet1445
agreeablec1450
favourousc1485
sweetly?a1500
pleasureful?c1502
dulcea1513
grate1523
prettya1529
plausible1541
jolly1549
dulcoratec1550
toothsome1551
pleasurable1557
tickling1558
suavec1560
amenous1567
odoriferous?1575
perfumed1580
glada1586
tickle1593
pleasurous1595
favoursome1601
dulcean1606
gratifying1611
Hyblaean1614
gratulatea1616
arrident1616
solacefula1618
pleasantable1619
placid1628
contentsome1632
sapid1640
canny1643
gustful1647
peramene1657
pergrateful1657
tastefula1659
complacent1660
placentiousa1661
gratifactorya1665
bland1667
suavious1669
palatable1683
placent1683
complaisant1710
nice1747
tasty1796
sweetsome1799
titbit1820
connate1836
cunning1843
mooi1850
gemütlich1852
sympathique1859
congenial1878
sympathetic1900
sipid1908
onkus1910
sympathisch1911
1852 Queen Victoria Jrnl. 11 Oct. (1868) 141 The view was so beautiful over the dear hills; the day so fine; the whole so gemüthlich.
1858 Queen Victoria Let. 7 Apr. in Dearest Child (1964) 86 I like him very much, he is pleasant, gemütlich, accomplished.
1867 W. James Let. 24 July in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) I. 239 Young Thies is a great wit, to judge by a saying of his the other night that ‘the Americans were almost as gemütlich as the Germans, at a fire.’
1934 A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 180 Germany is to be made as remote from Europe as New Guinea... The result promises to be extremely gemütlich.
1958 A. Wilson Middle Age of Mrs Eliot iii. 427 A very roly-poly, chuckling gemütlich middle-aged German.
1960 Times 11 June 11/6 Those yellow Biedermeier villas which give the town its gemütlich atmosphere.
1965 T. Capote In Cold Blood iv. 206 Their five-room apartment, with its gemütlich mélange of plump hassocks and squashy chairs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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