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English
Etymology
From un- + genial.
Adjective
ungenial (comparative more ungenial, superlative most ungenial)
- Not genial.
1862, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 60, October 1862:And yet this same ungenial climate, hostile as it generally is to the long remembrance of departed people, has sometimes a lovely way of dealing with the records on certain monuments that lie horizontally in the open air.
1892, Charles Lamb, The Best Letters of Charles Lamb:It may make folks smile and stare; but the ungenial coalition of barbarous with refined phrases will prevent you in the end from being so generally tasted as you desire to be.