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

Adjective

(en-adj)

Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp.

a mellow apple

Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid.

a mellow soil

* Drayton

flowers of rank and mellow glebe

Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued, soft, rich, delicate; said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc.

* Wordsworth

the mellow horn

* Thomson

the mellow -tasted Burgundy

* Percival

The tender flush whose mellow stain imbues / Heaven with all freaks of light.

Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial.

* Wordsworth

May health return to mellow age.

* Washington Irving

as merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound

Relaxed; calm; easygoing; laid-back.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.}}

Warmed by liquor, slightly intoxicated; or, stoned, high.

(Addison)