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.
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Congenial souls! whose life one avarice joins.
--Pope.
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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.
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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