genial
Friendly and cheerful.
Such a face was calculated to awaken not only the calm sentiment of esteem, the distant one of admiration, but some feeling more tender, genial, intimate—friendship, perhaps, affection, interest.
(especially of weather) Pleasantly mild and warm.
We met other families on the Long Walk, enjoying like ourselves the return of the genial season.
(uncommon) Marked by genius.
(archaic, originally) Pertaining to marriage; nuptial.
(archaic, by extension) Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive.
In time the bells ceased, and the bakers were shut up; and yet there was a genial shadowing forth of all these dinners and the progress of their cooking, in the thawed blotch of wet above each baker's oven; where the pavement smoked as if its stones were cooking too.
(uncommon, obsolete) Belonging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn.
natural incapacity and genial indisposition
(uncommon, Roman mythology) Relating to or resembling a genius (Roman tutelary deity).
(anatomy) Relating to the chin; genian.
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