genial

Friendly and cheerful; enlivening.

• a genial glow

Pleasantly mild and warm.especially

• genial warmth

Marked by genius.uncommon

• Men of genius have so often attacht the highest value to their less genial works.
• About fifty years later, in 1675, the Danish astronomer Ole Roemer (1644-1710) had the genial idea of using astronomical rather than terrestrial distances.

Pertaining to marriage; nuptial.archaic

• the genial bed

Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive.archaicbroadly

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

Belonging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn.obsoleteuncommon

• natural incapacity and genial indisposition

Relating to or resembling a genius (Roman tutelary deity).Romanuncommon

Relating to the chin; genian.not-comparable