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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;
virulent,
venomous,
envenomed;
poisonous,
toxic,
toxiferous†,
teratogenic;
narcotic.
contagious,
infectious,
catching,
taking,
epidemic,
zymotic†;
epizootic.
innutritious†,
indigestible,
ungenial;
uncongenial
etc.
(disagreeing)
24.
deadly
etc.
(killing)
361.
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Roget 24:
disagreeing
etc.
v.;
discordant,
discrepant;
at variance,
at war;
hostile,
antagonistic,
repugnant,
incompatible,
irreconcilable,
inconsistent with;
unconformable,
exceptional
etc.
83;
intrusive,
incongruous;
disproportionate,
disproportionated†;
inharmonious,
unharmonious†;
inconsonant,
unconsonant†;
divergent,
repugnant to.
inapt,
unapt,
inappropriate,
improper;
unsuited,
unsuitable;
inapplicable,
not to the point;
unfit,
unfitting,
unbefitting;
unbecoming;
illtimed,
unseasonable,
mal a propos [Fr.],
inadmissible;
inapposite
etc.
(irrelevant)
10.
uncongenial;
ill-assorted,
ill-sorted;
mismatched,
misjoined†,
misplaced,
misclassified;
unaccommodating,
irreducible,
incommensurable,
uncommensurable†;
unsympathetic.
out of character,
out of keeping,
out of proportion,
out of joint,
out of tune,
out of place,
out of season,
out of its element;
at odds with,
at variance with.
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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.
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