Definition of genial

"genial" in the adjective sense

1. affable, amiable, cordial, genial

diffusing warmth and friendliness

"an affable smile"

"an amiable gathering"

"cordial relations"

"a cordial greeting"

"a genial host"

2. genial, mental

of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw

3. kind, genial

agreeable, conducive to comfort

"a dry climate kind to asthmatics"

"the genial sunshine"

"hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet"

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Quotations for genial

In genial spring, beneath the quivering shade,
Where cooling vapors breathe along the mead,
The patient fisher takes his silent stand.
Intent, his angle trembling in his hand;
With looks unmoved, he hopes the scaly breed.
And eyes the dancing cork and bending reed. [ Pope ]

Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine.
Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine
For me kind nature wakes her genial power,
Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower. [ Pope ]

Great genial power consists in being altogether receptive. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Humour is of a genial quality and is closely allied to pity. [ Henry Giles ]

'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart. [ W. Irving ]

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. [ Bovee ]

Wit, bright, rapid, and blasting as the lightning, flashes, strikes, and vanishes in an instant; humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its object in a genial and abiding light. [ Whipple ]

Flowers are esteemed by us, not so much on account of their extrinsic beauty - their glowing hues and genial fragrance - as because they have long been regarded as emblems of mortality - because they are associated in our minds with the ideas of mutation and decay. [ Bovee ]

There is nothing more necessary to establish reputation than to suspend the enjoyment of it. He that cannot bear the sense of merit with silence must of necessity destroy it; for fame being the genial mistress of mankind, whoever gives it to himself insults all to whom he relates any circumstance to his own advantage. [ Steele ]

Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is the best flower of civilisation, and the best result which life has to offer us--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know is brought into play, and as the reproduction, in finer form, of all our havings. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations. [ Carlyle ]

genial in Scrabble®

The word genial is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters genial:

GENIAL
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LINAGE
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word genial

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In genial

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(12)

genial in Words With Friends™

The word genial is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters genial:

GENIAL
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Words within the letters of genial

2 letter words in genial (7 words)

3 letter words in genial (12 words)

4 letter words in genial (12 words)

5 letter words in genial (6 words)

6 letter words in genial (Anagrams) (2 words)

Words containing the sequence genial

Words that start with genial (5 words)

Words with genial in them (4 words)

Words that end with genial (3 words)

Word Growth involving genial

Shorter words in genial

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Longer words containing genial

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congenial congenially

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