ungenial
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not genial.
Example Sentences
- "And yet this same ungenial climate, hostile as it generally is to the long remembrance of departed people, has sometimes a lovely way of dealing with the records on certain monuments that lie horizontally in the open air."
- "The weather is raw and boisterous in winter, shifty and ungenial in summer, and a downright meteorological purgatory in the spring."
- "It may make folks smile and stare; but the ungenial coalition of barbarous with refined phrases will prevent you in the end from being so generally tasted as you desire to be."
Etymology
From un- + genial.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
Inflected Forms
more ungenial (comparative)
most ungenial (superlative)