genialとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈdʒiːnɪəl/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒinjəl/, /-ni.əl/
• 韻: (Received Pronunciation) -iːnɪəl
• ハイフネーション: ge‧ni‧al

形容詞

genial (comparative more genial, superlative most genial)

1. Friendly and cheerful.
   • 1953 March, Baynham Honri, “Filming "The Titfield Thunderbolt"”, in Railway Magazine, page 164:

     George Relph plays the part of the Vicar of the Parish, a railway enthusiast, who becomes amateur engine driver, with Sir Godfrey Tearle (the Bishop) as his fireman, while Stanley Holloway is the genial toper who provides the cash to buy the line.

2. (especially of weather) Pleasantly mild and warm.
3. Marked by genius.
   • 1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers:

     Men of genius have so often attacht the highest value to their less genial works.

   • 2003, Laura Fermi, Gilberto Bernardini, Galileo and the Scientific Revolution, Courier Dover Publications, page 111:

     About fifty years later, in 1675, the Danish astronomer Ole Roemer (1644-1710) had the genial idea of using astronomical rather than terrestrial distances.

4. (archaic) Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive.
   • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:

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

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     the genial bed

   • 1700, [John] Dryden, Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     Creator Venus, genial power of love.

5. (obsolete) Belonging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     natural incapacity and genial indisposition

6. (uncommon) Relating to or resembling a genius (Roman tutelary spirit)

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語源 2

From Ancient Greek γένειον (géneion, “chin”) + -al.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /dʒɪˈnʌɪəl/, /-ˈniːəl/
• (General American) IPA: /d͡ʒəˈnaɪəl/, /-ˈni.əl/
• 韻: (General American) -aɪəl
• ハイフネーション: ge‧ni‧al

形容詞

genial (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Relating to the chin; genian.

アナグラム

• Ealing, galine, igneal, Neglia, linage, Eaglin