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genial
What does genial mean?
genial (adjective): friendly and cheerful; enlivening.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use genial in a sentence?
- They were elderly men, and had genial voices. (Tatoeba sentence #11473230 by books, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce genial?
/ˈdʒinjəl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does genial come from?
Borrowed from Middle French génial, borrowed from Latin geniālis (“of or pertaining to marriage; festive”), from genius (“guardian spirit”) + -ālis.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of genial?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “genial” mean?
inspiring mixed contempt and pity
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communicated in the form of words
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being nothing more than specified
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friendly and cheerful; enlivening
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neutral
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cordial
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diverse
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