Meaning

Friendly and cheerful; enlivening..

Definitions by Sense

1. Friendly and cheerful; enlivening.
2. (especially weather) Pleasantly mild and warm.
3. (uncommon) Marked by genius.
4. (archaic, originally) Pertaining to marriage; nuptial.
5. (archaic, by extension) Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive.
6. (uncommon, obsolete) Belonging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn.
7. (uncommon, Roman mythology) Relating to or resembling a genius (Roman tutelary deity).
8. (anatomy) Relating to the chin; genian.

Example Sentences

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; […].

There had been the shine of candles, and the laughter of the women, the old Judge's genial humor.

George Relph plays the part of the Vicar of the Parish, a railway enthusiast, who becomes amateur engine driver, with Sir Godfrey Tearle (the Bishop) as his fireman, while Stanley Holloway is the genial toper who provides the cash to buy the line.

[Abdullah] Shami, a genial and open-faced man of forty-five, greeted me warmly.

Last month, Tucker Carlson’s genial interview with the white nationalist Nick Fuentes detonated a bomb that further fractured the Trump-era conservative movement he once helped galvanize.

genial warmth

Word Forms

• more genial
• most genial

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