genial

See also génial

English

Etymology

From Latin geniālis (“of or pertaining to marriage; festive, genial”), from genius (“guardian spirit”) + -ālis.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Adjective

genial (comparative more genial, superlative most genial)

1. friendly and cheerful
2. (especially of weather) pleasantly mild and warm
   • 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure Part 3

     The well breath'd youth, hot-mettled, and flush with genial juices, was now fairly in for making me know my driver.

3. marked by genius
   • 2003, Laura Fermi, Gilberto Bernardini, Galileo and the Scientific Revolution, Courier Dover Publications, page 111 [1]:

     About fifty years later, in 1675, the Danish astronomer Ole Roemer (1644-1710) had the genial idea of using astronomical rather than terrestrial distances.

4. (anatomy) genian; relating to the chin

Translations

friendly and cheerful

• Finnish: ystävällinen (fi), lempeä (fi)

• Russian: дружелюбный (ru) (druželjúbnyj), радушный (ru) (radúšnyj)

pleasantly mild and warm

• Finnish: leuto (fi), leppeä (fi)

marked by genius

• Danish: genial (da)
• Dutch: geniaal (nl)
• Finnish: nerokas (fi)
• French: génial (fr) m

• Hungarian: zseniális (hu)
• Portuguese: genial (pt) m and f
• Swedish: genial (sv)

Derived terms

• congenial

Anagrams

• Ealing, igneal, linage

---

German

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡeˈni̯aːl/

• Audio (Austria)

  (file)

Adjective

genial

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

---

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin geniālis (“of or pertaining to marriage; festive, genial”), from genius (“guardian spirit”) + -ālis.

Adjective

genial m and f (plural geniales)

1. ingenious, genial
2. splendid, gorgeous.

Related terms

• genialidad
• genio