Genial

Definition: Genial

Genial

Adjective

1. Diffusing warmth and friendliness; "an affable smile"; "an amiable gathering"; "cordial relations"; "a cordial greeting"; "a genial host".

2. Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw.

3. Conducive to comfort; beneficial; "the genial sunshine"; "a kind climate"; "hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "genial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Genial

Heat

Adjective: hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen; thermal, thermic; calorific; fervent, fervid; ardent; aglow.

Pain

Refreshing; comfortable; cordial; genial; glad, gladsome; sweet, delectable, nice, dainty; delicate, delicious; dulcet; luscious; palatable; luxurious, voluptuous; sensual.

Production

Adjective: produced, producing; Verb: productive of; prolific; creative; formative, genetic, genial, genital; pregnant; enceinte, big with, fraught with; in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of; puerperal, puerperous.

Willingness

Docile; persuadable, persuasible; suasible, easily persuaded, facile, easy-going; tractable; (pliant); genial, gracious, cordial, cheering, hearty; content; (assenting).

World

Phrase: die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht; "earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God"; "green calm below, blue quietness above"; "hanging in a golden chain this pendant World"; "nothing in nature is unbeautiful"; "silently as a dream the fabric rose"; "some touch of nature's genial glow"; "this majestical roof fretted with golden fire"; "through knowledge we behold the World's creation".

Crosswords: Genial

German (brilliant, ingenious, ingeniously, inspired, resourceful), Indonesian (genial), Portuguese (genial, ingenious), Romanian (brilliant, brilliantly, gifted, great), Spanish (affable, brilliant, genial, individual, masterly, pleasant, typical), Swedish (brilliant, ingenious).

El Detective genial (1965)

Einfach genial (1996)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• "Charge it" : or, Keeping up with Harry: a story of fashionable extravagance and of the successful efforts to restrain it made by the Honorable Socrates Potter, the genial friend of Lizzie (reference)

• Bebe Genial (reference)

• El Genial Senor Bat (reference)

• Inteligencia Genial (reference)

• Marcos: la genial impostura( nuevo siglo) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Big Daddy (Un Papa Genial) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Baby Genial [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference)

• C'Est Genial [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The christian amazon, with her invincible target, Alias, the focus of genial rays, or Dian of the Rushes, to much for 300,000, Infidels. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Even the memories of my lost friend and companion were sunny as the genial weather that smiled around me.

A sort of pleasant genial mantis that’s given up preying and taken up tennis instead

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "genial": Genial gods ♦ genial tubercle. Additional references.

Albanian

gazmor (cheerful, cheery, convivial, debonair, easygoing, exhilarated, gay, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jollier, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, riant, set up, zippy), jetëdhënës (bracing, life giving), i qeshur (gay, jovial, mirthful, smiling), i pjellshëm, i përzemërt (amiable, cordial, good natured, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, heart-whole, hearty, loving, neighborly, neighbourly, warmhearted, wholehearted), i ngrohtë (cordial, cushy, homelike, homing, red-hot, snug, warm, warm blooded, warming), i dashur (affable, affected, affectionate, amiable, baby, beloved, caring, darling, dear, debonair, fond, friendly, gentle, good, good natured, kind, kindly, love, pleasant, precious, sweetheart, sweetie, Sweeting, sweety, Truelove, Valentine, warm), i butë (balmy, bland, Clement, cottony, creamy, delicate, doughy, downy, ductile, easygoing, facile, feathery, flabby, gentle, lenient, limp, meek, mellow, melting, merciful, mild, moderate, mushy, non-rigid, permissive, pillowy, placable, pulpy, quick, samel, silken, silky, soft, soft spoken, squashy, tame, temperate, tender, velvety, yielding). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محي (vital), ‏معتدل (abstemious, balmy, clement, conservative, erect, gentle, low key, measured, meek, middle, mild, moderate, modest, reasonable, soft, steady, straight, temperate, upright), ‏لطيف (affable, agreeable, amiable, benign, bland, charming, civil, civilized, complaisance, complaisant, courteous, courtly, decent, delicate, fair, fair-spoken, fine, friendly, gentle, good natured, gracious, handsome, kind, kindly, light, mild, nice, pet, pleasant, polite, poppet, pretty, refreshing, smooth, soft, suave, sweet, tender, tenuous, thin, urbane), ‏ودي (amiable, bluff, brotherly, cordial, fraternal, friendly, good natured, heartfelt, hearty, intimate, kind, neighbor, neighborly, neighbour, neighbourly, nice, outgoing, pally, sexy, sympathetic, warm, well disposed), ‏ودود (amiable, chummy, friendly, warm-hearted), ‏أنيس (affable, companionable, gregarious, sociable, social). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сърдечен (cardiac, cheery, cordial, expansive, hearty, kind, lusty, mellow, openhearted, pressing, warm), топъл (cosy, hot, mellow, warm), гениален (daemonic), весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, winsome), общителен (chummy, clubbable, communicable, communicative, conversable, convivial, folksy, gregarious, knowable, maty, mellow, neighborly, neighbourly, sociable, unbuttoned), на брадата, мек (balmy, benign, benignant, bland, creamy, cushiony, doughy, ductile, euphemistic, flabby, flaccid, floppy, green, kindly, lambent, limp, medium, meek, mellow, melodious, melting, mild, pillowy, rich, round, silken, silver, soft, supple, tender, weak, well-padded, yielding), мил (agreeable, amiable, benign, comfortable, cute, darling, dear, engaging, good, kind, likable, likeable, lovable, mil, nice, sweet), жизнерадостен (cheery, debonair, elastic, high-spirited, jaunty, sanguine). (various references)

Chinese 

�'�善. (various references)

Czech

vlídný (affable, amiable, approachable, benign, cordial, courteous, good, gracious, hospitable, kindly, mild, sweet, sweet-tempered), srdeèný (affectionate, cordial, feeling, heartfelt, hearty, home-felt, open armed, warm, warmhearted), rozšafný, mírný (balmy, benign, easygoing, equable, gentle, lamblike, lenient, light, meek, mild, moderate, placid, quiet, reasonable, slow, sober, soft, tame, temperate, unruffled), žoviální (jovial, rollicking). (various references)

Danish

spina mentalis (genial tubercle). (various references)

Dutch

spina mentalis (genial tubercle). (various references)

Farsi 

خوش معاشرت (Sociable), خوش مشرب (Chummy, Sociable), خوش ذهن . (various references)

French

gentil (gentile, gentle), généreux (generous), doux (gentle), cordial, chaleureux, amiable, agréable, affable. (various references)

German

großartig (admirable, brillant, brilliantly, excellent, gorgeous, gorgeously, grand, grandiose, grandiosely, grandly, great, greatly, immense, magnificent, magnificently, marvelous, marvelously, prodigious, splendid, superb, superbly, superior, terrific, wonderful). (various references)

Greek 

καλόκαρδοσ (kind hearted, tender-hearted, warm-hearted), πρόσχαρος (gracious), φιλικός (amiable, amicable, friendly, neighbourly), φαιδρόσ (blithe, cheerful, debonair, gay, guy, hilarious, jovial, vivacious, winsome), ζεστός (warm), εγκάρδιοσ (cheery, cordial, heartfelt, hearty, whole-hearted), αναφερόμενοσ σε γάμο, αναφερόμενοσ σε πηγούνι. (various references)

Hebrew 

לבבי (bluff, cordial, heartfelt, hearty, intimate, open armed, warm), א�"יב (affable, civil, courteous, gallant, gracious, kind, kindly, mannerly, obliging, polite, suave, well mannered), חביב (affable, beloved, likable, lovable, lovely, pleasant), � וח (affable, calm, comfortable, convenient, cushy, easy, easygoing, fair, favourable, good natured, mild, propitious, rest, snug, soft). (various references)

Hungarian

természetes (axiomatic, axiomatical, easy, inartificial, ingenuous, matter of course, natural, unadulterated, unartful, unstudied), enyhe (benign, bland, clement, easy, faint, gentle, lenient, light, mild, slight, soft), derűs (cheerful, jocund, jovial, sunny, unclouded). (various references)

Indonesian

genial, ramah (debonair, gentle, kind, neighborly). (various references)

Italian

socievole (chummily, companionable, conversable, gregarious, sociable, sociably, social), piacevole (agreeable, beautiful, cushy, delightful, enjoyable, entertaining, good, kindly, likeable, lovely, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, refreshing, sweet), mite (bland, gentle, lenient, meek, mild, moderate, reasonable, temperate), cordiale (cordial, hearty, neighborly, neighbourly, pick me up, restorative, sociable, sympathetic, warm, warm-hearted, wholehearted), benigno (benign, benignant), amabile (agreeable, amiable, charming, lovable, lovely, sweet). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

温かい (mild, warm). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あたたかい (mild, warm). (various references)

Manx

slayntoil (healthy, salubrious, sane, sanitary, sound), lossanagh (aglow, auroral, blazing, bright, flaming, flaring, impassioned, inflamed, inflammable, luminous, phosphorescent, varnish), gennal (amiable, blithe, blithesome, cheerful, convivial, gay, good-humoured, jocular, jolly, jovial, mirthful), follan (bracing, edible, fit to eat, healthy, hearty, incorrupt, orthodox, solvent, sound, whole, wholesome). (various references)

Norwegian

vennlig (affable, friendly, good-natured, kind), mild (balmy, lenient). (various references)

Pig Latin

enialgay.(various references)

Portuguese

genial (ingenious), temperado (abstemious, seasoned, spicy, temperate, tempered), suave (bland, creamy, delicate, douce, downy, dulcet, easy, facile, gentle, glib, lambent, lamblike, lenient, meek, mellifluent, mellifluous, mild, piano, placable, pleasant, silken, sleek, sleeky, smooth, soft, soft-spoken, suave, sweet, tender), simpático (appealing, likable, likeable, lovable, nice, pleasant, prepossessing, sympathetic), nupcial (bridal, hymeneal, nuptial), jovial (blithe, blithesome, breezy, cant, canty, cheerful, convivial, debonair, gay, jocular, joky, jolly, jovial, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, rakish, resilient, rollicking, sprightly, winsome), fecundante, cordial (amicable, cardiac, cordial, friendly, heartfelt, hearty, warm), bem-humorado (gamesome, good-tempered, peart, well-disposed), amável (accommodating, affable, amiable, attentive, complaisant, complimentary, courteous, fond, friendly, gentle, good-humored, good-humoured, good-natured, kind, kindly, likable, likeable, lovable, nice, obsequious, pleasing, sociable, sporty, sweet, well-natured), agradável (agreeable, amiable, comely, congenial, cushy, delectable, delightful, easy, enjoyable, entertaining, fine, gladsome, glorious, good-humored, good-humoured, goodly, good-natured, kindly, lovely, merry, music, musical, neat, nice, nutty, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, pretty, racy, restful, snug, sober-blooded, soft, songful, stunner, suave, taking, welcome, well-done, well-natured). (various references)

Romanian

voios (cheerful, cheerfully, exhilarated, festival, genially, glad, gleeful, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, mellow, merrily, merry, mirthful, saucy), vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, convivial, crank, debonair, elastic, feastful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, riant, saucy, sprightly, tails up, wanton), propice (auspicious, lucky, propitious), plãcut (agreeable, cheerful, comely, dulcet, fine, genially, gladsome, good, goodly, grateful, gratefully, gratifying, handsome, homey, kindly, likable, listenable, merry, neat, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, smooth, snug, sweet), favorabil (advantageous, appreciative, appreciatory, auspicious, bright, convenient, Dexter, fair, favorable, favorably, favored, favourable, favourably, favoured, fortunate, friendly, genially, good, happy, inclinable, kindly, large, lucky, propitious, suited, towardly), dulce (amorously, benign, bland, candied, charming, dear, dessert, dulcet, flattering, fresh, gentle, gently, honeyed, lovable, luscious, melliferous, mellow, melodious, slack, smooth, soft, suave, sugared, sweet, sweetly, sweets, tender, winning), cordial (cordial, cordially, good humoured, good-humored, heart-felt, hearty, kind, responsive, sincere, stimulating, true, warm, whole heartedly, whole-hearted), calm (calm, calmly, calmness, collected, collectedness, composed, composure, cool, coolness, dispassionate, easily, easy, equal, equanimity, even, even tempered, evenness, halcyon, lull, passionless, peace, peaceful, peacefully, phlegmatic, placid, placidity, poise, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, sedate, serene, serenity, silence, smooth, sober, sobriety, still, temper, tranquil, tranquillity, unhurried, unruffled, untroubled), bonom (genially), blând (benign, bland, Clement, docile, dovelike, easy-tempered, fair, gentle, gently, good hearted, good natured, harmless, lenient, meek, mild, mildly, Pacific, passive, peaceable, placable, silken, soft, steady, sweet, tame, tender, tractable), binevoitor (amiable, benevolent, benignant, bland, charitable, condescending, favorable, favourable, friendly, genteel, gentle, good, good natured, gracious, humane, kind, kindly, lithe, nice, propitious, ungrudging, well disposed, well meaning, well wisher, yielding), amabil (affable, agreeable, amiable, amiably, bland, considerate, courteous, decent, endearing, fair, favorable, favourable, good natured, good tempered, gracious, kind, kindly, lovable, obliging, obligingly, polite, politely, sweet-tempered), agreabil (agreeable, agreeably, attractive, boon, charming, cheerful, delightful, enjoyable, genially, good, gratefully, gratifying, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, smooth-faced). (various references)

Russian 

сердечный (cardiac, cordial, heartfelt, hearty, home-felt, kind, warm, warmhearted, warm-hearted). (various references)

Scottish

suaimhneach (calm, quiet, secure). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

srdačan (cordial, friendly, hearty, kind, open armed, outgiving, true-hearted, warm, warmhearted, warm-hearted), blag (benign, bland, clement, gentle, lenient, light, meek, mellow, melting, mild, permissive, placable, tender, unctuous). (various references)

Spanish

genial (affable, brilliant, individual, masterly, pleasant, typical), suave (balmy, dulcet, gentle, mild, silken, silky, smooth, soft, suave, subdued, supple, sweet), simpático (charming, congenial, darling, decent, friendly, likeable, lovely, nice, pleasant, sympathetic), agradable (agreeable, capacious, comfortable, congenial, enjoyable, goodly, likable, lovely, nice, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, satisfying, welcome), afable (affable, agreeable, companionable, forthcoming, good natured, gracious, informal, lovable, Matey, maty, smooth, sociable, suave). (various references)

Swedish

sympatisk (congenial, endearing, likable, likeable, lovable, loveable, sympathetic), gynnsam (advantageous, auspicious, benign, favorable, favourable, friendly, happy, prosperous), gemytlig (comfortable, cosy, cozy, good humoured, good natured, good-humored, goodnatured, good-natured, jolly, jovial). (various references)

Turkish

güler yüzlü (good humoured, good-humored), neşeli (airy, animate, animated, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, bucked, buoyant, buoyed up, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, cock-a-hoop, debonair, debonaire, easygoing, eupeptic, exhilarated, fit as a fiddle, full of beans, gamesome, gay, gleeful, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lively, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, perky, rambunctious, rollicking, slaphappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, upbeat, vivacious), hayat veren (life giving, refresher, regenerative), hayat dolu (alive, alive and kicking, animate, animated, as fresh as daisy, Corky, dewy, exuberant, fresh, full of life, live, lively, quick, sprightly, vital, vivacious, vivid), cana yakın (amiable, approachable, congenial, conversable, forthcoming, friendly, gracious, hail-fellow-well-met, lovable, personable, sympathetic, warmhearted, warm-hearted), ılımlı (Clement, equable, hospitable, low key, middle-of-the-road, mild, moderate, modest, temperate). (various references)

Ukrainian

шлюбний (conjugal, connubial, marriageable, married, nubile, nuptial), геніальний, м'який (cat-like, cottony, creamy, delicate, downy, gentle, kindly, limp, melodious, mild, mushy, non-rigid, pulpy, soft, yielding), привіітний, добродушний (debonair, good humoured, good-humored, well-natured, well-tempered). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vui vẻ (blithe, blithesome, boon, canty, cheery, chirk, debonair, gay, glad, gladsome, good-humored, good-humoured, heartily, hearty, hilarious, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, laughing, merrily, mirthful, pleasant, sportful), vui tính; tốt bụng, thân ái (amicable, cordial, cordially, endearingly), ân cần ôn ho� . (various references)

Welsh

rhywiog (fine, kindly, tender), rhadlon (gracious, kind), hynaws (affable, kind), hyfwyn (kindly). (various references)

genialis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "genial": genialities, geniality, genially. (additional references)

Words ending with "genial": congenial, uncongenial, ungenial. (additional references)

Words containing "genial": congenialities, congeniality, congenially, uncongenialities, uncongeniality. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Genial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: genail, genal, geneal, Genel, Genelex, genical, genila, Geniza, genizah, genoad, genoan, genoat, genral, Gensac, gental, genual, Genzac, geoidal, geria, gernil, gevial, Glenigan, Gnosall, gonal, gonial, Guernika, Junipall, negidal, Negidals, penial, senial, xenial. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: linage.

-1 letter: agile, algin, alien, align, aline, angel, angle, anile, elain, glean, ingle, liane, liang, ligan, linga.

-2 letters: agin, anil, egal, elan, gaen, gain, gale, gane, gien, glen, glia, ilea, lain, lane, lang, lean, lien, line, ling, nail.

-3 letters: age, ail, ain, ale, ane, ani, eng, gae, gal, gan, gel, gen, gie, gin, lag, lea.

+1 letter: aligned, aligner, aneling, angelic, anglice, atingle, dealing, eanling, elating, engrail, finagle, galenic, gallein, gelatin, geminal, genital, healing, leading, leafing, leaking, leaning, leaping, leasing, leaving, linages, lineage, linguae, linkage, nargile, pealing, realign, reginal, sealing, unagile, vealing, yealing.

+2 letters: agential, alerting, algerine, alginate, alienage, aliening, aligners, alleging, allergin, altering, angelica, angeling, atheling, belaying, blearing, bleating, blindage, cageling, cleaning, clearing, cleating, cleaving, dealings, delating, delaying, dragline, eanlings, elapsing, emailing, empaling, enabling, engrails, enlacing, ensilage, equaling, exalting, exhaling, fanglike, finagled, finagler, finagles, gainable, gainless, gainlier, galenite, galleins, ganglier, gantline, gasoline, gaveling, gelatine, gelating, gelatins, gelation, genially, genitals, geranial, geraniol, germinal, glaceing, glassine, gleaming, gleaning, gliadine, gnarlier, gnatlike, grapline, healings, integral, janglier, labeling, lacewing, ladening, lagering, latening, layering, leaching, leadings, leaguing, leanings, learning, leashing, leasings, leavings, legatine, legating, legation, liegeman, ligament, lineages, linkages, maligned, maligner, malinger, medaling, metaling, narghile, nargileh, nargiles, paneling, pearling, pedaling, pleading, pleasing, pleating, raveling, realigns, regaling, regional, relacing, relating, relaxing, relaying, shealing, signaled, signaler, singable, slangier, sleaving, snaglike, stealing, tangible, tanglier, teazling, tegminal, triangle, ungenial, valeting, weakling, weanling, yealings, yeanling, yearling.