Uncongenial \Uncongenial\
See congenial.
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
WordNet (r) 2.0
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "uncongenial":
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withdrawn
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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