GENIAL DEFINITIONS - 10 definitions found
genial adj 1: diffusing warmth and friendliness; "an affable smile"; "an amiable gathering"; "cordial relations"; "a cordial greeting"; "a genial host" [syn: affable, amiable, cordial, genial] 2: of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw [syn: genial, mental] 3: agreeable, conducive to comfort; "a dry climate kind to asthmatics"; "the genial sunshine";"hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet" [syn: kind, genial] genial linage galien ealing algine Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary genial Someone who is genial is kind and friendly. Bob was always genial and welcoming... He was a warm-hearted friend and genial host. = amiable ADJ [approval] • genially 'If you don't mind,' Mrs. Dambar said genially. ADV • geniality He soon recovered his habitual geniality. N-UNCOUNT Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Genial \Ge*ni"al\, a. (Anat.) Same as Genian. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Genial \Gen"ial\, a. [L. genialis: cf. OF. genial. See Genius.] 1. Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive. ``The genial bed.'' --Milton. Creator Venus, genial power of love. --Dryden. 2. Contributing to, and sympathizing with, the enjoyment of life; sympathetically cheerful and cheering; jovial and inspiring joy or happiness; exciting pleasure and sympathy; enlivening; kindly; as, she was of a cheerful and genial disposition. So much I feel my genial spirits droop. --Milton. 3. Belonging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn. [Obs.] Natural incapacity and genial indisposition. --Sir T. Browne. 4. Denoting or marked with genius; belonging to the higher nature. [R.] Men of genius have often attached the highest value to their less genial works. --Hare. Genial gods (Pagan Mythol.), the powers supposed to preside over marriage and generation. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms genial a. 1. Fostering, cheering, enlivening, inspiriting, encouraging. 2. Cordial, hearty. 3. Cheerful, pleasant, merry, mirthful, jovial. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) genial ̈ɪˈdʒi:njəl adj. affable, amiable, cordial, warm, friendly, congenial, agreeable, good-natured, good-humoured, well-disposed, neighbourly, sociable, kindly, kind, hospitable, easygoing, relaxed, pleasant, nice, cheerful, cheery, convivial: And here is your genial host, Sonny Gegenschein! Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 164 Moby Thesaurus words for "genial": abiogenetic, aestival, affable, agreeable, amiable, amicable, ardent, beaming, biogenetic, blastogenetic, blissful, blithe, blithesome, blood-hot, blood-warm, bonhomous, bright, bright and sunny, calid, cheerful, cheery, civil, clubbable, clubbish, clubby, communicative, companionable, companionate, compatible, complaisant, congenial, convivial, cordial, courteous, desirable, dulcet, easy, easy-natured, easygoing, elated, en rapport, enjoyable, epigenetic, equatorial, eumerogenetic, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, fair, fair and pleasant, felicific, felicitous, fine, fit for society, flushed, fond of society, friendly, gametic, generative, generous, genetic, genital, genitive, gentle, glad, gladsome, glowing, good, good-humored, good-natured, good-tempered, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying, gregarious, happy, harmonious, heart-warming, hearty, heterogenetic, high, histogenetic, homogenetic, honeyed, hopeful, hospitable, in good spirits, in high spirits, irrepressible, isogenetic, jocund, jolly, jovial, kind, kindly, laughing, liberal, likable, luke, lukewarm, mellifluous, mellow, merogenetic, merry, metagenetic, mild, monogenetic, neighborly, nice, of good cheer, open, openhearted, optimistic, orthogenetic, pangenetic, parthenogenetic, phytogenetic, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, radiant, receptive, relaxed, rewarding, riant, room-temperature, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, satisfying, smiling, sociable, social, social-minded, sparkling, sporogenous, subtropical, summery, sunny, sunshiny, sweet, sweet-tempered, temperate, tepid, thermal, thermic, toasty, tropical, unfrozen, urbane, warm, warm as toast, warmhearted, warmish, welcome, welcoming, well-disposed, well-natured, winsome, xenogenetic |
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