uncongenial

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ congenial.

Adjective

uncongenial (comparative more uncongenial, superlative most uncongenial)

1. Not congenial, compatible or sympathetic.
2. Not appropriate; unsuitable.
3. Not pleasing; disagreeable.

   He found office life uncongenial, and eventually left the company.

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 147:

     A few days brought time into that general routine of small observances which make up ordinary existence; but never had Francesca felt herself in a more uncongenial atmosphere.

   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 213:

     However, they were all waiting - all the sixteen or twenty pilgrims of them - for something; and upon my word it did not seem an uncongenial occupation, from the way they took it, though the only thing that ever came to them was disease - as far as I could see.

4. (botany) Incapable of being grafted.

Translations

not congenial, compatible, sympathetic

• Bulgarian: несъответстващ (nesǎotvetstvašt)
• Dutch: onpassend (nl)
• German: ungleich (de), ungleichartig, divergent (de)
• Hindi: असौहार्दपूर्ण (asauhārdapūrṇ)

not appropriate; unsuitable

• Bulgarian: неподходящ (bg) (nepodhodjašt)
• Dutch: onpassend (nl)
• German: unangemessen (de), unpassend (de)

not pleasing; disagreeable

• Bulgarian: неприятен (bg) (neprijaten)
• Dutch: onaangenaam (nl)
• German: unangenehm (de)

incapable of being grafted