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Definition of Congenial

1. Adjective. Suitable to your needs. "Two congenial spirits united...by mutual confidence and reciprocal virtues"

2. Adjective. (used of plants) capable of cross-fertilization or of being grafted.

Definition of Congenial

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

Definition of Congenial

1. Adjective. having the same or very similar nature, personality, tastes, habits or interests ¹

2. Adjective. friendly or sociable ¹

3. Adjective. suitable to one's needs ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Congenial

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Congenial

congelative congelifract congeliturbation congemination congenator congener congenerate congeneration congeneric congenerical

congenericity congenerous congenerousness congeners congenetic congenial (current term) congenialities congeniality congenialize congenialized

congenializes congenializing congenially congenialness congenic congenic strain congenically congenious

Literary usage of Congenial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1893)
"Did thy bright gleam mysterious converse hold With our congenial souls ? secrets too bold ? Well, we are safe and strong, for now we sit Beside a hearth ..."

2. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1846)
"... an account of which will be more appropriately introduced when we visit a country more congenial to its habits than the plains of La Plata. ..."

3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"... bad ; which exists in that language as well as in our own. cognate Indo-Germanic language we find a regular and more congenial positive still existing, ..."

4. Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'eighty by Charles Dickens (1868)
"... could be—that she didn't care for him—that he was wretched for life—and thai the only congenial prospect left him, was to go for a soldier or a sailor, ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1908)
"Here, with most congenial work, he was in close connexion with those to whom he was already bound by a singular affection. His doubts as to his religious ..."

6. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... he concealed a most kindly nature, full of geniality and sympathy, and a great love of congenial, and especially of female, society. ..."

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