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Genial   /dʒˈinjəl/   Listen
adjective
Genial  adj.  (Anat.) Same as Genian.


Genial  adj.  
1.
Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive. "The genial bed." "Creator Venus, genial power of love."
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."
3.
Belonging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn. (Obs.) "Natural incapacity and genial indisposition."
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."
Genial gods (Pagan Mythol.), the powers supposed to preside over marriage and generation.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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... cultivated on a wholesale scale, of skilled men directing great ploughing, sowing, and reaping plants, steering cattle and sheep about carefully designed enclosures, constructing channels and guiding sewage towards its proper destination on the fields, and then of added crowds of genial people coming out to spray trees and plants, pick and sort and pack fruits. But who are these people? Why are they in particular doing this for the community? Is our Great State still to have a majority of ...
— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells
... Macaulay's interests and intuitions wearing a certain air of superficiality; there is a feeling of the same kind about his attempts to be genial. It is not truly festive. There is no abandonment in it. It has no deep root in moral humour, and is merely a literary form, resembling nothing so much as the hard geniality of some clever college tutor of stiff manners, entertaining undergraduates at an official breakfast-party. ...
— Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) - Essay 4: Macaulay • John Morley
... Senator's library, and he received his colleagues with the genial air of one who has much to gain and little to lose. There were whiskies, wines, cigars on the table, and while Mollenhauer and Simpson exchanged the commonplaces of the day awaiting the arrival of Butler, they lighted cigars and kept their inmost ...
— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser
... headed Personal Talk, so well known, so warmly accepted in our better hours, so easily forgotten in hours not so good between pleasant levities and grinding preoccupations, show us how little his neighbours had to do with the poet's genial seasons of "smooth passions, smooth ...
— Studies in Literature • John Morley
... series for girls is about the adventures of pretty, resourceful Polly Pendleton, a wide awake American girl who goes to boarding school on the Hudson River, several miles above New York. By her pluck and genial smile she soon makes a name for herself and becomes a leader ...
— Two Little Women • Carolyn Wells


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