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Grumpy vs Genial - What's the difference?

grumpy | genial |

As adjectives the difference between grumpy and genial

is that grumpy is unhappy, dissatisfied and/or irritable while genial is great, fantastic.

grumpy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Unhappy, dissatisfied and/or irritable.
    • Tommy feels grumpy today because his friend stole his ball.
    Michael Finnell was grumpy''', but became even '''grumpier when the Celtics lost.

    Synonyms

    * grouchy * surly * truculent

    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

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