genial

Friendly and cheerful; enlivening.

a genial glow

Such a face was calculated to awaken not only the calm sentiment of esteem, the distant one of admiration, but some feeling more tender, genial, intimate—friendship, perhaps, affection, interest.

Pleasantly mild and warm.

genial warmth

We met other families on the Long Walk, enjoying like ourselves the return of the genial season.

Marked by genius.

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.

the genial bed

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

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.

Relating to the chin; genian.