Engaging vs Genial - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between engaging and genial

is that engaging is that engages the attention; engrossing, interesting; enthralling while genial is friendly and cheerful.

As a verb engaging

is present participle of lang=en.

engaging

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

That engages the attention; engrossing, interesting; enthralling.

I found the first of the Harry Potter books a very engaging read.

Charming; attractive, especially of a manner or behaviour.

Beauty, of course, and a bright, engaging personality — or at least the ability to fake one — are prerequisites for entering the Miss World competition.

Derived terms

* engagingness * unengaging

Synonyms

* (that engages the attention) absorbing, compelling, engrossing, enthralling, interesting * (charming) appealing, attractive, sweet

Antonyms

* (that engages the attention) boring, dull, unengaging, uninteresting * (charming) boorish, rude, uncivil, uncivilised

Verb

(head)

genial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

friendly and cheerful

(especially of weather) pleasantly mild and warm

{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , 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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