genial

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1. genial - Adjective

2. genial - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

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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

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

Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind. Margaret Fuller

But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Thomas Gray

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

Bid us sigh on from day to day, And wish and wish the soul away, Till youth and genial years are flown, And all the life of life is gone. Samuel Beckett

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