Genial \Ge*ni"al\, a. (Anat.)
Same as Genian.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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Creator Venus, genial power of love. --Dryden.
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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.
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So much I feel my genial spirits droop. --Milton.
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3. Belonging to one's genius or natural character; native;
natural; inborn. [Obs.]
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Natural incapacity and genial indisposition. --Sir
T. Browne.
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4. Denoting or marked with genius; belonging to the higher
nature. [R.]
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Men of genius have often attached the highest value
to their less genial works. --Hare.
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Genial gods (Pagan Mythol.), the powers supposed to preside
over marriage and generation.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
2: of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw
[syn: mental]
3: conducive to comfort; beneficial; "the genial sunshine"; "a
kind climate"; "hot summer pavements are anything but kind
to the feet" [syn: kind]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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