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Definition: Uncongenial |
UncongenialAdjective1. Not suitable to your tastes or needs; "the uncongenial roommates were always fighting"; "the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs". 2. Very unfavorable to life or growth; "a hostile climate"; "an uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"; "the unfriendly environment at high altitudes". 3. Used of plant stock or scions; incapable of being grafted. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "uncongenial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: UncongenialSynonyms: hostile (adj), incompatible (adj), unfriendly (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: congenial (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disagreement | Inapt, unapt, inappropriate, improper; unsuited, unsuitable; inapplicable, not to the point; unfit, unfitting, unbefitting; unbecoming; illtimed, unseasonable, mal a propos, inadmissible; inapposite; (irrelevant). uncongenial; ill-assorted, ill-sorted; mismatched, misjoined, misplaced, misclassified; unaccommodating, irreducible, incommensurable, uncommensurable; unsympathetic. |
Insalubrity | Innutritious, indigestible, ungenial; uncongenial; (disagreeing). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Uncongenial |
| English words defined with "uncongenial": fugitive ♦ hostile ♦ incompatible, Incongenial ♦ runaway ♦ unfriendly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "uncongenial": Beard, Brain ♦ Courland Weather ♦ Drama ♦ Hearse, Holy Communion, Hyena ♦ Musical Instruments ♦ Stone Mason. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "uncongenial": Incongenial. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Friedrich Nietzsche | One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Uncongenial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Uncongenial" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 34 | 59,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
uncongenial | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "uncongenial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i pakëndshëm (awkward, bad, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, dreary, grating, hard, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, objectionable, repellent, ugly, unattractive, ungrateful, unlovable, unpalatable, unpleasant, unpresentable, unsightly, warm), antipatik (antipathetic, antipathetical, objectionable, unfriendly, unlovely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | несходен (dissimilar), неприятен (annoying, chronic, clammy, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, hairy, hideous, hoggish, inconvenient, invidious, irksome, nasty, objectionable, painful, plaguesome, plaguy, repugnant, sour, tiresome, troublesome, ugly, unagreeable, unappetizing, uncool, undesirable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, untoward, unwelcome, vinegary, wicked), неподходящ (ill-suited, improper, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incorrect, ineligible, inept, infelicitous, injudicious, inopportune, irrelative, irrelevant, out of place, unadapted, unapt, unbecoming, unbeseeming, undignified, undue, unequal, unfit, unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited, untoward, wrong), не по вкуса. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nevlídný (dismal, gruff, inclement, rugged, sour, stern, surly, testy, unfriended, unfriendly, unkind), nesourodý, nepřívìtivý (unfriendly, ungracious, unpleasant), nepříjemný (annoying, awkward, difficult, disagreeable, embarrassing, irksome, irritating, miserable, nasty, objectionable, sticky, troublesome, uncomfortable, uneasy, unpleasant, unsavory, untoward, vexatious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ungleichartig (disparate, unlike). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nem rokonszenves (unlovable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuchocheintagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ongenialuncay pouco simpático, não favorável, incompatível (abhorrent, antipathetic, antipathetical, contradictory, ill-placed, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, repugnant, unsuitable, warring), hostil (adverse, antipathic, hostile, ill disposed, inimical, opposite, unfriendly, warring), desagradável (bad, beastly, bleak, brackish, crabbed, desagreeable, disagreeable, disgusting, dismal, displeasing, distemper, dreadful, dreary, fearful, forbidding, foul, frightful, ghastly, grisly, harsh, horrible, horrid, invidious, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, seamy, ugly, uncomfortable, undesirable, ungrateful, unlovely, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unthankful, untoward, unwelcome, unwished), antipático (antipathetic, antipathetical, nasty, unlikeable, unlovable, unpleasant). (various references) чуждый по духу, неподходящий (ill-suited, ill-timed, improper, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, ineligible, inopportune, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, unbeseeming, undesirable, unfit, unmeet, unsuitable, unsuited, unusable). (various references) odvratan (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, brackish, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, hideous, loathsome, mucky, nasty, nauseating, obnoxious, obscene, odious, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, snotty, sordid, unlovely, vile), neprijatan (awkward, disagreeable, harsh, nasty, offensive, unagreeable, unflattering, ungracious, unkind, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references) otrevlig (bleak, disagreeable, dismal, dreary, exasperating, fierce, ghastly, grisly, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, snotty, unpleasant), osympatisk (nasty, off putting), ogästvänlig (inhospitable). (various references) uymayan (contrary, defiant, inapplicable, unbecoming, unsuitable), tatsız (arid, chippy, disagreeable, distasteful, dull, dusty, flat, flavorless, flavourless, frail, insipid, milk and water, objectionable, queasy, savorless, savourless, sticky, tame, tasteless, ugly, unamusing, uncomfortable, ungracious, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsweetened, unwelcome, vapid, watery), sevimsiz (angular, beastly, grotty, unamiable, unattractive, ungracious, unlikable, unlikeable, unlovable, unlovely, unprepossessing, unsympathetic), sıkıcı (arid, bald, boring, burdensome, constringent, cut and dried, damnable, dead alive, disconcerting, ditch water, ditchwater, drab, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, gaunt, gloomy, grave, grotty, humdrum, inanimate, insipid, irksome, oppressive, poky, ponderous, prose, prosy, slow, sluggish, soul-destroying, soulless, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, tiresome, trying, unexeciting, unpleasant, unreadable, unsensational, vapid, waste, watery, wearisome), canayakın olmayan. (various references) không hợp tính tình không thích hợp. (various references) anghydnaws. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "uncongenial": uncongenialities, uncongeniality. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-l-n-n-n-o-u" | |
-2 letters: congenial, enouncing. | |
-3 letters: announce, cannelon, canoeing, cleaning, enlacing, noncling, ungenial, unlacing. | |
-4 letters: alencon, aneling, angelic, anglice, anguine, canning, cannoli, cauline, cingula, cloning, clueing, coaling, coinage, congeal, conning, cunning, eanling, encinal, eulogia, galenic, guanine, inconnu, inocula, lancing, leaning, linguae, loaning, nuclein, nucleon, unagile, uncinal, unclean. | |
-5 letters: aculei, aeonic, agonic, alnico, ancone, annuli, cangue, canine, caning. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-l-n-n-n-o-u" | |
+3 letters: uncongeniality. | |
+5 letters: consanguineously, counterbalancing, uncongenialities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 63 6F 6E 67 65 6E 69 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -.-. --- -. --. . -. .. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100011 01101111 01101110 01100111 01100101 01101110 01101001 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n c o n g e n i a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0063 006F 006E 0067 0065 006E 0069 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580698180737180756778 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, albaner, albán, Albaneagh, albanês, албанский, albanski, albanac, alban, Arnavut |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgare, bolgár, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, cseh, Sheckagh, Sheckish, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, người Séc tiếng Séc |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | gjerman, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, német, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemão, немецкий, germanski, tysk, alman, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister, Almaenwr |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, Ungar, magyar, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, ungrare, macarca, macar, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | gjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, manština, manský, manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, från ön man, man adası, man dili |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugiesisch, portugál, Portiugish, Portiugagh, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, Russe, russisch, orosz, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ryss, Rusça, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | serbokroatisch, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | suedez, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, schwedisch, svéd, Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, türkisch, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turkisk, türkçe, türk, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | vietnamisht, vietnamez, виетнамски език, виетнамски, vietnamec, vietnamský, vietnamka, vietnamština, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, vietnami, vietnámi, vietnamita, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnames, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
Welsh | geirlyfr, geiriadur, diffiniad, darnodiad, trosiad | shkel premtimin, populli i uellsit, ik pa paguar, i uellsit, gjuha e uellsit, уелски, уелски език, не си плащам дълга, измъквам се от задължение, waleský, waleština, walisisch, walesi, Bretnagh, galês, уэльский, velšanin, podvaliti, velški jezik, velški, walesisk, galler ile ilgili, gal dili, bahisleri ödemeden kaçmak, ödemeden kaçmak, sözünü tutmamak, şartları yerine getirmemek, Cymreig |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, englisch, angol, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, Saesneg |
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