Word Study
cozy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cozy has 1 sense
- cozy(n = noun.artifact) cosy, tea cosy, tea cozy - a padded cloth covering to keep a teapot warm; Array is a kind of cloth covering
Adjective cozy has 3 senses
- cozy(s = adj.all) cosy, snug - enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space; "a cozy nook near the fire"; "snug in bed"; "a snug little apartment" Derived form noun coziness1
- cozy(s = adj.all) informal, intimate - having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere; "had a cozy chat"; "a relaxed informal manner"; "an intimate cocktail lounge"; "the small room was cozy and intimate" Derived form noun coziness1
- cozy(s = adj.all) Array - suggesting connivance; "a cozy arrangement with the police"
CIDE DICTIONARY
cozy, a. [Cf. Scot. cosie, cozie, prob. from Gael. cosach abounding in hollows, or cosagach full of holes or crevices, snug, sheltered, from cos a hollow, a crevice.].
- Snug; comfortable; easy; contented. [1913 Webster]
- Chatty; talkative; sociable; familiar. [1913 Webster]
A wadded covering, often decorative, for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot. Also called tea cozy [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
cozy
airworthy, buddy-buddy, charmed, chatty, cheerful, chitchatty, chummy, colloquial, comfortable, comfy, commodious, communicative, confabulatory, content, contented, convenient, conversational, cushioned, cushiony, cushy, delighted, easeful, easy, eupeptic, euphoric, exhilarated, familiar, favorably impressed with, friendly, glad, gladsome, gratified, homelike, homely, homey, homish, in clover, interlocutory, intimate, intrigued, lived-in, luxurious, pally, palsy-walsy, peaceful, plain, pleased, pleased as Punch, pleased with, relaxing, reposeful, restful, roomy, safe, satisfied, sea-kindly, seaworthy, secure, simple, snug, soft, sold on, taken with, tete-a-tete, thrilled, tickled, tickled pink, tickled to death, unpretending, warm
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