uncongenial
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.41 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not congenial, compatible or sympathetic.
adj
Not appropriate; unsuitable.
adj
Not pleasing; disagreeable.
Example Sentences
- "He found office life uncongenial, and eventually left the company."
- "A few days brought time into that general routine of small observances which make up ordinary existence; but never had Francesca felt herself in a more uncongenial atmosphere."
- "However, they were all waiting - all the sixteen or twenty pilgrims of them - for something; and upon my word it did not seem an uncongenial occupation, from the way they took it, though the only thing that ever came to them was disease - as far as I could see."
Etymology
Etymology tree English un- English con- Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-der. Latin genius Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin geniālisbor. Middle French génialbor. English genial English congenial English uncongenial From un- + congenial.
Inflected Forms
more uncongenial (comparative)
most uncongenial (superlative)