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English
Etymology
un- + congenial
Adjective
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.
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
not congenial, compatible, sympathetic
not appropriate; unsuitable
not pleasing; disagreeable
incapable of being grafted