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Another word for genial

Adjective

  1. Pleasant and friendly in disposition

    2. See also:

    good

    attitude

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Another word for genial

Modifier

  1. Friendly

    2. See also:

    friendly

    amiable

  2. Pleasant or favorable; said of the weather, surroundings, etc.

    3. See also:

    amiable

    pleasant

    mild

    fair

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Sentence Examples

  • What a genial person he was.

  • He was, however, genial and kind-hearted, a great lawyer and a faithful minister.

  • He seemed a genial sort though, if not a bit of a show-off.

  • The Letters, which are very stilted, also reveal Apollinaris as a man of genial temper, fond of good living and of pleasure.

  • For Moscow society Pierre was the nicest, kindest, most intellectual, merriest, and most magnanimous of cranks, a heedless, genial nobleman of the old Russian type.

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