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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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"Congenial" Quotes from Famous Books

... not need much persuading. She had always loved the lake, and Jerry's society was generally congenial. He had, moreover, been taking special pains to please her, and she was quite ...

— The Odds - And Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell

... that the Norman soldiers of William, on the outside of the Abbey church, affected to consider the shouts as the signal of insurrection, and immediately set fire to the houses of the neighbourhood (a singular remedy for riot), and began the congenial work of plunder, to the great mortification of the king. All now became confusion in the interior of the Abbey: the Norman barons prepared for battle; the native nobles regarded themselves as victims selected for slaughter, and the king is said to have been left alone, with ...

— Coronation Anecdotes • Giles Gossip

... marry him he had not been much moved. He had put the question to her simply and calmly, and she had not dreamed of refusing him. It was obviously her duty, and it had always been her intention to marry well, if the chance came her way, and so leave a not too congenial home. ...

— The Price of Things • Elinor Glyn

... May, Miss Luttrell,' said Mrs. Oswald, quietly smiling to herself at the fancy picture of Ernest seated in congenial converse with the Rector, Colonel Turnbull, and young Luttrell; 'but as to Mr. Le Breton, I DO happen to know where he's stopping, though it's not often that I know any Calcombe gossip, save and except what you're good enough to ...

— Philistia • Grant Allen

... scarcely unavoidable but unsatisfactory side-glance upon the old school, which looks down with so great an air of superiority upon Darwin's "intellectual dream" and the "giddy enthusiasm" of its friends, I turn to the more congenial task of considering the developmental history of the Crustacea from the point of view ...

— Facts and Arguments for Darwin • Fritz Muller

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