Dictionary Definition
uncongenial adj
1 not suitable to your tastes or needs; "the
uncongenial roommates were always fighting"; "the task was
uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs" [syn: incompatible] [ant:
congenial]
2 very unfavorable to life or growth; "a hostile
climate"; "an uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"; "the
unfriendly environment at high altitudes" [syn: hostile, unfriendly]
3 used of plant stock or scions; incapable of
being grafted
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- not congenial, compatible or sympathetic
- incapable of being grafted
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Olympian, abhorrent, aloof, antagonistic, antipathetic, at
cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war,
autistic, backward, bashful, blank, chilled, chilly, clashing, close, cold, constrained, contradictory, contrary, cool, cranky, cross, detached, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, discordant, discreet, discrepant, disharmonious, dislikable, displeasing, disproportionate,
dissident, dissociable, dissonant, distant, distasteful, divergent, expressionless, forbidding, frigid, frosty, grating, guarded, hostile, icy, immiscible, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, inaccordant, incompatible, inharmonious, insociable, intolerable, introverted, jangling, jarring, mislikable, modest, mopey, mopish, morose, negative, nongregarious, odious, offish, out of accord, out of
whack, remote, removed, repressed, repugnant, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, self-contained,
self-sufficient, shrinking, snug, socially incompatible,
standoff, standoffish, subdued, sullen, suppressed, unaffable, unapproachable, unclubbable, uncommunicative,
uncompanionable,
undemonstrative,
unexpansive,
unfriendly, ungenial, unharmonious, uninviting, unlikable, unlovable, unpleasant, unsociable, unsocial, variant, withdrawn