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Genial vs Mannerly - What's the difference?

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Genial is a related term of mannerly.


As adjectives the difference between genial and mannerly

is that genial is great, fantastic while mannerly is polite, having good manners.

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

    * ----

    mannerly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • polite, having good manners
  • * 1593, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona
    • Lucetta, as thou lov'st me, let me have / What thou think'st meet, and is most mannerly .
  • * 1861, Charlotte Yonge, The Young Step-Mother
    • ...but Genevieve's laugh roused her again, partly because she thought it less mannerly than accorded with the girl's usual politeness.

    Derived terms

    * mannerliness