Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
suitable to your needs;
- Example: "a congenial atmosphere to work in"- Example: "two congenial spirits united...by mutual confidence and reciprocal virtues"- T.L.Peacock2.
(used of plants) capable of cross-fertilization or of being grafted;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Congenial \Con*gen"ial\ (?; 106), a. [Pref. con- + genial.]
1. Partaking of the same nature; allied by natural
characteristics; kindred; sympathetic.
[1913 Webster]
Congenial souls! whose life one avarice joins.
--Pope.
[1913 Webster]
two congenial spirits united . . . by mutual
confidence and reciprocal virtues --T. L.
Peacock
2. Naturally adapted; suited to the disposition; as, a
congenial atmosphere to work in. "Congenial clime." --C.
J. Fox.
[1913 Webster]
To defame the excellence with which it has no
sympathy . . . is its congenial work. --I. Taylor.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Bot.) capable of cross-fertilization or of being grafted;
-- used of plants.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
congenial
adj 1: suitable to your needs; "a congenial atmosphere to work
in"; "two congenial spirits united...by mutual confidence
and reciprocal virtues"- T.L.Peacock [ant:
incompatible, uncongenial]
2: (used of plants) capable of cross-fertilization or of being
grafted
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
162 Moby Thesaurus words for "congenial":
accordant, affable, affinitive, affirmative, agnate, agreeable,
agreeing, akin, allied, amiable, amicable, answerable,
appertaining, associative, at one, attuned, blissful, brotherly,
cheerful, civil, clubbable, clubbish, clubby, coexistent,
coexisting, cognate, coherent, coincident, coinciding,
commensurate, communicative, companionable, companionate,
comparable, comparative, compatible, complaisant, concordant,
concurring, conformable, congeneric, congenerous, congruent,
congruous, connate, connatural, connected, connective,
consentaneous, consentient, consistent, consonant, conspecific,
cooperating, cooperative, cordial, correlative, correspondent,
corresponding, courteous, desirable, dulcet, empathetic, empathic,
en rapport, enate, enjoyable, equivalent, fair, fair and pleasant,
favorable, felicific, felicitous, fine, fit for society,
fond of society, fraternal, frictionless, friendlike, friendly,
genial, good, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying, gregarious,
harmonious, heart-warming, honeyed, hospitable, in accord,
in agreement, in concert, in rapport, in sync, in synchronization,
in tune, inaccordance, inharmony, kind, likable, like-minded,
linking, mellifluous, mellow, neighborlike, neighborly, nice,
of a piece, of like mind, of one mind, on all fours, peaceable,
peaceful, pertaining, pertinent, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable,
pleasure-giving, pleasureful, positive, proportionable,
proportional, proportionate, reconcilable, referable, referring,
relating, relational, relative, responsibilities, rewarding,
satisfying, self-consistent, simpatico, sisterly, sociable, social,
social-minded, sweet, symbiotic, sympathetic, sympathique,
synchronized, synchronous, together, unanimous, understanding,
unhostile, uniform, unisonant, unisonous, united, urbane, welcome,
well-affected, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meaning,
well-meant