congenial

Speech parts

1. congenial - Adjective

2. congenial - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Partaking of the same nature; allied by natural characteristics; kindred; sympathetic.

Naturally adapted; suited to the disposition.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pally kindred good consonant fraternal brotherly kind warm compatible accessible friendly peaceful favorable sympathetic engaging
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Antonyms

uncongenial accursed pesky huffy cold bad
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Phrases with the word

less congenial more congenial

Anagrams

Goclenian

Examples

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art. Oliver Goldsmith

The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song. Algernon Charles Swinburne

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. V. S. Pritchett

Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction ... for fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it. G. K. Chesterton

Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial. R. H. Tawney

I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry? Wilfred Owen

Close letter words and terms

congenerous congenerousness congenetic congeniality congenialize congenially