Definition of Genial

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Genial

Same as Genian.

Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive.

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.

Belonging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn.

Denoting or marked with genius; belonging to the higher nature.

Related Definitions:

And, As, Belonging, Character, Cheerful, Cheering, Concerned, Contributing, Denoting, Disposition, Enjoyment, Enlivening, Exciting, Generative, Genial, Genian, Genius, Happiness, In, Inborn, Inspiring, Jovial, Joy, Kindly, Life, Marked, Native, Natural, Nature, Of, One, Or, Pleasure, Procreative, Production, Productive, Propagation, Same, She, Sympathetically, Sympathizing, Sympathy, The, To, Was, With

Genial Quotations

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
Walter Bagehot

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
Robertson Davies

But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.
James Payn

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
Harriet Martineau

Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?
Emma Willard

Genial Translations

genial in Norwegian is vennlig, mild
genial in Swedish is gemytlig, sympatisk, gynnsam

Quotes