genial

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Friendly and cheerful

   Friendly and cheerful; enlivening.

   • a genial glow
   • Such a face was calculated to awaken not only the calm sentiment of esteem, the distant one of admiration, but some feeling more tender, genial, intimate—friendship, perhaps, affection, interest.
   • This genial girl, like her brother, was in the grand situation of having no home and of carrying on life, such a splendid kind of life, by successive visits to relations; […].
2. 2

   Pleasantly mild and warm.

   • genial warmth
   • We met other families on the Long Walk, enjoying like ourselves the return of the genial season.
3. 3

   Marked by genius.

   • Men of genius have so often attacht the highest value to their less genial works.
   • About fifty years later, in 1675, the Danish astronomer Ole Roemer (1644-1710) had the genial idea of using astronomical rather than terrestrial distances.
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   1. 4

      Pertaining to marriage

      Pertaining to marriage; nuptial.

      • the genial bed
   2. 5

      Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production

      Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive.

      • Creator Venus, genial power of love.
      • The well breath'd youth, hot-mettled, and flush with genial juices, was now fairly in for making me know my driver.
   3. 6

      Belonging to one's genius or natural character

      Belonging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn.

      • natural incapacity and genial indisposition
   4. 7

      Relating to or resembling a genius (Roman tutelary deity).

   5. 8

      Relating to the chin

      Relating to the chin; genian.

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