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adjective

Congenial adj.

Partaking of the same nature; allied by natural characteristics; kindred; sympathetic. "Congenial souls! whose life one avarice joins." "two congenial spirits united... by mutual confidence and reciprocal virtues"

Naturally adapted; suited to the disposition; as, a congenial atmosphere to work in. "Congenial clime." "To defame the excellence with which it has no sympathy... is its congenial work."

(Bot.) Capable of cross-fertilization or of being grafted; used of plants.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Congenial" Quotes from Famous Books

... 30, 1629, Charles I., at the recommending of the Earl of Exeter, presented Herrick with the vicarage of Dean Prior, near Totnes, in Devonshire. Here he was destined to pass the next nineteen years of his life among surroundings not congenial. For Herrick to be a mile away from London stone was for Herrick to be in exile. Even with railway and telegraphic interruptions from the outside world, the dullness of a provincial English town of today is something formidable. The dullness of a sequestered English hamlet in the early part of ...

— Ponkapog Papers • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... made congenial by our surroundings in beautiful mountain wild, in the depths of primeval forest, in the refreshing shade of canon wall, or in the homes and sacred places of the Indians themselves; while at others the broiling desert sun, the sand-storm, the flood, the biting ...

— The North American Indian • Edward S. Curtis

... improvement was not to be retarded, and so, finding it impossible to successfully oppose or to prevent the building of the objectionable railroad, the incensed Baron very reluctantly determined to dispose of his baronial estates and to remove to a more congenial locality, where the encroachments of trade were not to be feared, and where, in undisturbed seclusion and retirement, he might pass ...

— Bucholz and the Detectives • Allan Pinkerton

... happened to be very congenial to Cheenbuk's cast of mind. He remained thinking and gazing upwards for a minute or two, then he said meditatively, as if he were trying to ...

— The Walrus Hunters - A Romance of the Realms of Ice • R.M. Ballantyne

... been for so long—some of them for three years—leading a congenial life among their rocks, descending now and then to kill an Austrian and to gather booty, were most active when the ill-starred Imperial army was retiring. Six hundred Austrians, for instance, took the road from Kola[vs]in with the intention of marching to Lieva Rieka, a distance of 45 kilometres. ...

— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 • Henry Baerlein

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