genial

Meaning

Adjective

• Friendly and cheerful.
• Pleasantly mild and warm.
• Marked by genius.
• Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive.
• Belonging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn.
• Relating to the chin; genian.

Origin

• From Middle French génial, from Latin genialis ("of or pertaining to marriage; festive, genial"), from genius + -alis.
• From Ancient Greek γένειον ("chin") + .