GENIALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genially mean? 

• GENIALLY (adverb)
  The adverb GENIALLY has 1 sense:

1. in an affable manner

  Familiarity information: GENIALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENIALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an affable manner

Synonyms:

affably; amiably; genially

Context example:

'Come and visit me,' he said amiably

Pertainym:

genial (diffusing warmth and friendliness)

 Context examples 

“Hello, Hump,” he greeted me genially.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We dined at "Jack Straw's Castle" along with a little crowd of bicyclists and others who were genially noisy.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I knew there would be pleasure in meeting my master again, even though broken by the fear that he was so soon to cease to be my master, and by the knowledge that I was nothing to him: but there was ever in Mr. Rochester (so at least I thought) such a wealth of the power of communicating happiness, that to taste but of the crumbs he scattered to stray and stranger birds like me, was to feast genially.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"I read somewhere that the sun's getting hotter every year," said Tom genially. "It seems that pretty soon the earth's going to fall into the sun—or wait a minute—it's just the opposite—the sun's getting colder every year.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"Go ahead," answered Daisy genially, "And if you want to take down any addresses here's my little gold pencil. . . ." She looked around after a moment and told me the girl was "common but pretty," and I knew that except for the half hour she'd been alone with Gatsby she wasn't having a good time.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)