Genial vs Boon - What's the difference?
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As adjectives the difference between genial and boon is that genial is great, fantastic while boon is (obsolete) good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage". As a noun boon is (obsolete) a prayer; petition or boon can be the woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
genial English
Adjective
( en adjective)
friendly and cheerful
(especially of weather) pleasantly mild and warm
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, The well breath'd youth, hot-mettled, and flush with genial juices, was now fairly in for making me know my driver. }}
marked by genius
* 2003 , Laura Fermi, Gilberto Bernardini, Galileo and the Scientific Revolution , Courier Dover Publications, page 111 [http://books.google.com/books?id=qGsZ4YmjhFwC&pg=PA111&dq=genial+idea+date:1940-2009&lr=lang_en&as_brr=3&as_pt=ALLTYPES]:
- About fifty years later, in 1675, the Danish astronomer Ole Roemer (1644-1710) had the genial idea of using astronomical rather than terrestrial distances.
(anatomy) genian; relating to the chin
Derived terms
* congenial
Anagrams
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boon English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .
Noun
( en noun)
(obsolete) A prayer; petition.
* :
- For which to God he made so many an idle boon
(archaic) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a favour; benefaction; a grant; a present.
* :
- Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above
* 1872 , (James De Mille), The Cryptogram :
- I gave you life. Can you not return the boon by giving me death, my lord?
A good; a blessing or benefit; a great privilege; a thing to be thankful for.
*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
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An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
Synonyms
* blessing
* benefit
Antonyms
* bane
Etymology 2
From (etyl) boon, bone, from .
Adjective
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(obsolete) good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage"
kind; bountiful; benign
* Milton
- Which Nature boon / Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.
gay; merry; jovial; convivial
* Arbuthnot
- a boon companion, loving his bottle
* Episode 16
- --No, Mr Bloom repeated again, I wouldn't personally repose much trust in that boon companion of yours who contributes the humorous element, if I were in your shoes.
Quotations
* Which ... Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain —
* A boon companion, loving his bottle —
Etymology 3
From Gaelic and Irish via Scots.
Noun
( -)
The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
( Webster 1913)
Anagrams
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