genial

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}, {genial}]
    2: of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw
       [syn: {genial}, {mental}]
    3: agreeable, conducive to comfort; "a dry climate kind to
       asthmatics"; "the genial sunshine";"hot summer pavements are
       anything but kind to the feet" [syn: {kind}, {genial}]
    

Genial \Ge*ni"al\, a. (Anat.)
   Same as {Genian}.
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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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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