genial

About 1.30 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Friendly and cheerful; enlivening.

   a genial glow

2. adjective Pleasantly mild and warm.

   genial warmth

3. adjective Marked by genius.
4. adjective Pertaining to marriage; nuptial.
5. adjective Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive.
6. adjective Belonging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn.
7. adjective Relating to or resembling a genius (Roman tutelary deity).
8. adjective Relating to the chin; genian.

Similar words

amiable affable friendly cordial benignant benign mental kind great brilliant

Often followed by

and warmth climate influence man smile host nature in

Word family

genialities geniality genially