Genial

Adjective

 * 1) friendly and cheerful
 * 2)  pleasantly mild and warm
 * 3) marked by genius
 * 4) * 2003, Laura Fermi, Gilberto Bernardini, Galileo and the Scientific Revolution, Courier Dover Publications, page 111 :
 * About fifty years later, in 1675, the Danish astronomer Ole Roemer (1644-1710) had the genial idea of using astronomical rather than terrestrial distances.

Adverbs for Genial
pleasantly; courteously; affably; amiably; heartily; merrily; jovially; altogether; consistently; resolutely; fraternally; comfortingly; charmingly; cordially; delightfully; engagingly; marvelously; extraordinarily; unusually; habitually; conspicuously.

Synonyms for Genial
kind, cordial, pleasing, warm-hearted, pleasant, cheering, hearty, merry, affable, jovial, outgoing, mild,  courteous,  inspiring, complaisant, benign, gracious, urbane, polite, blithe, jolly, convivial, cheerful, brotherly, fraternal, well-disposed, hospitable, buoyant, sunny, congenial, joyful, lively, enlivening, joyous, spirited, sprightly, animated.

Antonyms for Genial
moody, dull, dolorous, gloomy, inhospitable, sorrowful, grouchy, doleful, dismal, sulky, morose, sullen, melancholy, petulant, peevish, solemn, cross, austere, stern, grim, cranky, crusty, irritable, testy, surly, rough, perverse, eccentric, rude, dispiriting,  fretful,  pensive.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From genialis:, from genius: + -alis:.

Translations

 * Finnish:, lempeä


 * Finnish: ,


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: nerokas


 * Hungarian:

Derived terms

 * congenial

Anagrams

 * Ealing, igneal, linage

Adjective

 * 1) genius, ingenious, genial (in the sense of genius)

Etymology
From genialis:, from genius: + -alis:.

Adjective

 * 1) ingenious, genial
 * 2) splendid, gorgeous.

Related terms

 * genialidad
 * genio