uncongenial

Adjective

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Adjective (3)

  1. not suitable to your tastes or needs“the uncongenial roommates were always fighting”“the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs”Synonyms: incompatibleSimilar disagreeable, unsympatheticSee also incompatible, unfriendly, unsympathetic
  2. very unfavorable to life or growth“a hostile climate”“an uncongenial atmosphere”“an uncongenial soil”“the unfriendly environment at high altitudes”Synonyms: hostileunfriendlyOpposite hospitableSimilar inhospitable
  3. used of plant stock or scions; incapable of being graftedOpposite compatibleSimilar incompatible
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Uncongenial

Formed with the prefix un- (“not”). See congenial.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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