Antonyms for congenial

Grammar : Adj

Spell : kuhn-jeen-yuhl

Phonetic Transcription : kənˈdʒin yəl

Definition of congenial

Origin : 1620s, "kindred, sympathetic," from Latin com- "together" (see com-) + genialis "of birth," thus, "kindred" (see genus). Sense of "agreeable" is first recorded 1711. Related: Congeniality.

adj friendly, compatible

Example sentences :

I often tell her that they are, after all, her most congenial associates.
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

From the hush of these places, it is congenial to pass into the hushed resorts of business.
Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens

The song had begun with celebrating a theme, that must for ever be congenial to every female breast.
Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin

Praise is congenial to every human sense; the voice of praise is ever grateful to the ear of virtue.
Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin

These Artauds flourish in it all, as on a congenial dungheap.
Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola

The turmoil and the uproar were congenial to my vexed spirit.
Extract from : « The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales » by Arthur Conan Doyle

For you there is a reality, a fit place and congenial duties.
Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nor can the congenial be the good; for good is not the friend of good, as has been also shown.
Extract from : « Lysis » by Plato

And desire is of what a man wants and of what is congenial to him.
Extract from : « Lysis » by Plato

But then the congenial cannot be the same as the like; for like, as has been already shown, cannot be the friend of like.
Extract from : « Lysis » by Plato

Synonyms for congenial

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