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Etymology edit

un- +‎ congenial

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uncongenial (comparative more uncongenial, superlative most uncongenial)

  1. Not congenial, compatible or sympathetic.
  2. Not appropriate; unsuitable.
  3. Not pleasing; disagreeable.
    He found office life uncongenial, and eventually left the company.
    • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, [], →OCLC, part I, page 213:
      However, they were all waiting - all the sixteen or twenty pilgrims of them - for something; and upon my word it did not seem an uncongenial occupation, from the way they took it, though the only thing that ever came to them was disease - as far as I could see.
  4. (botany) Incapable of being grafted.

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