Sunny vs Genial - What's the difference?
sunny | genial | Related terms |
(of weather or a day) Featuring a lot of sunshine.
(of a place) Receiving a lot of sunshine.
(figuratively, of a person or a person's mood) Cheerful.
* Shakespeare
Of or relating to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; brilliant; radiant.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
(US, regional) sunny side up
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
Sunny is a related term of genial.
As adjectives the difference between sunny and genial
is that sunny is (of weather or a day) featuring a lot of sunshine while genial is great, fantastic.As an adverb sunny
is (us|regional) sunny side up.As a noun sunny
is a sunfish.sunny
English
Adjective
(er)- Whilst it may be sunny today, the weather forecast is predicting rain.
- the sunny side of a hill
- I would describe Spain as sunny , but it's nothing in comparison to the Sahara.
- a sunny disposition
- My decayed fair / A sunny look of his would soon repair.
- sunny beams
- sunny locks
Synonyms
* bright; sunshiny * (place) sunlit * (person) bright, cheerfulDerived terms
* sunnily * sunniness * sunny side up * unsunnyAdverb
(-)genial
English
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.