Word Meanings - GENIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

See GENIAN

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GENIAL)

• Jolly
• Gay
• joyful
• gladsome
• mirthful
• genial
• jovial
• jubilant
• robust
• lively
• plump
• merry
• Jovial
• convivial
• Mild
• Moderate
• lenient
• calm
• gentle
• tempered
• soft
• meek
• tender
• placid
• Sociable
• Companionable
• social
• convertible
• friendly
• accessible
• gregarious
• Temperate
• abstemious
• reasonable
• sober
• cool
• sedate
• mild

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GENIAL)

• Withhold
• withdraw
• retain
• appropriate

Related words: (words related to GENIAL)

• LIVELY
  1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
• SOCIALIST; SOCIALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or of the nature of, socialism.
• JOVIALITY
  The quality or state of being jovial. Sir T. Herbert.
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• GENIALLY
  1. By genius or nature; naturally. Some men are genially disposed to some opinions. Glanvill. 2. Gayly; cheerfully. Johnson.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• SEDATE
  Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper. Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
• TEMPER SCREW
  1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. 2. A set screw used for adjusting.
• CONVIVIALIST
  A person of convivial habits.
• JOVIALTY
  Joviality. Barrow.
• PLUMPNESS
  The quality or state of being plump.
• PLACID
  Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• MERRY-ANDREW
  One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• LENIENTLY
  In a lenient manner.
• SOCIALIZE
  1. To render social. 2. To subject to, or regulate by, socialism.
• SOCIALITY
  The quality of being social; socialness.
• JOVIALIST
  One who lives a jovial life. Bp. Hall.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• RECONVERTIBLE
  Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
• ATTEMPER
  1. To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature. If sweet with bitter . . . were not attempered still. Trench. 2. To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice
• PRIMOGENIAL
  First born, made, or generated; original; primary; elemental; as, primogenial light. Glanvill.