Definition of "genial"

genial¹

/ˈdʒiːnɪəl/

adjective
comparative more genial, superlative most genial
1. Friendly and cheerful.
2. (especially of weather) Pleasantly mild and warm.
3. Marked by genius.
  Quotations
  Men of genius have so often attacht the highest value to their less genial works.
  1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers
  About fifty years later, in 1675, the Danish astronomer Ole Roemer (1644-1710) had the genial idea of using astronomical rather than terrestrial distances.
  2003, Laura Fermi, Gilberto Bernardini, Galileo and the Scientific Revolution, Courier Dover Publications, page 111
4. (archaic) Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive.
  Quotations
  The well breath'd youth, hot-mettled, and flush with genial juices, was now fairly in for making me know my driver.
  1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […]
  the genial bed
  1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
  Creator Venus, genial power of love.
  1700, [John] Dryden, Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
5. (obsolete) Belonging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn.
  Quotations
  natural incapacity and genial indisposition
  1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […]

genial²

/dʒɪˈnʌɪəl/

adjective
not comparable
1. (anatomy) Relating to the chin; genian.

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