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uncongenial

adjective

1 uncongenial

Not suitable to your tastes or needs:
— The uncongenial roommates were always fighting.
— The task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs.

synonym: incompatible.

Roget 657: insalubrious; unhealthy, unwholesome; noxious, noisome; morbific, morbiferous; mephitic, septic, azotic, deleterious; pestilent, pestiferous, pestilential; ... show more

Roget 24: disagreeing etc. v.; discordant, discrepant; at variance, at war; hostile, antagonistic, repugnant, incompatible, irreconcilable, inconsistent with; unconformable, ... show more

2 uncongenial

Very unfavorable to life or growth:
— An uncongenial atmosphere.
— An uncongenial soil.

synonyms: hostile, unfriendly.

3 uncongenial

Used of plant stock or scions; incapable of being grafted.


Moby thesaurus: Olympian, abhorrent, aloof, antagonistic, antipathetic, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, autistic, backward, bashful, blank, chilled, chilly, clashing, close, cold, constrained ... show more.

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