Genial1. (a.) Same as Genian.
2. (a.) Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive.
3. (a.) 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.
4. (a.) Belonging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn.
5. (a.) Denoting or marked with genius; belonging to the higher nature.
Thesaurus Entries
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