Genteel vs Genial - What's the difference?
genteel | genial |
Affectedly proper or refined; somewhat prudish refinement; excessively polite.
Polite and well-mannered.
Stylish or elegant.
Aristocratic
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]:
(anatomy) genian; relating to the chin
As adjectives the difference between genteel and genial
is that genteel is affectedly proper or refined; somewhat prudish refinement; excessively polite while genial is friendly and cheerful.genteel
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(en adjective)Derived terms
* genteelismgenial
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Adjective
(en adjective)- About fifty years later, in 1675, the Danish astronomer Ole Roemer (1644-1710) had the genial idea of using astronomical rather than terrestrial distances.