uncongenial
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]uncongenial (comparative more uncongenial, superlative most uncongenial)
- Not congenial, compatible or sympathetic.
- Not appropriate; unsuitable.
- 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.
- (botany) Incapable of being grafted.
Translations
[edit]not congenial, compatible, sympathetic
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not appropriate; unsuitable
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not pleasing; disagreeable
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incapable of being grafted