Genial vs Hearty - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between genial and hearty

is that genial is friendly and cheerful while hearty is pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager.

As a noun hearty is

a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.

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

* ----

hearty

English

(Webster 1913)

Adjective

(er)

Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager.

* (rfdate) (w)

Full of hearty tears For our good father's loss.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}

Exhibiting strength; sound; healthy; firm; not weak.

Promoting strength; nourishing; rich; abundant.

Derived terms

* heartily * heartiness

Synonyms

* sincere; real; unfeigned; undissembled; cordial; earnest; warm; zealous; ardent; eager; active; vigorous.

Noun

(hearties)

a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.

* 1849 , (Herman Melville), Chapter VI

*:“Ay, ay,” muttered the chief mate, as they rolled out of then-boats and swaggered on deck, “it’s your turn now, but it will be mine before long. Yaw about while you may, my hearties , I’ll do the yawing after the anchor’s up.”