uncongenial
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
uncongenial
adj 1: not suitable to your tastes or needs; "the uncongenial
roommates were always fighting"; "the task was
uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs" [syn:
{uncongenial}, {incompatible}] [ant: {congenial}]
2: very unfavorable to life or growth; "a hostile climate"; "an
uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"; "the
unfriendly environment at high altitudes" [syn: {hostile},
{uncongenial}, {unfriendly}]
3: used of plant stock or scions; incapable of being grafted
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "uncongenial":
Olympian, abhorrent, aloof, antagonistic, antipathetic,
at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war,
autistic, backward, bashful, blank, chilled, chilly, clashing,
close, cold, constrained, contradictory, contrary, cool, cranky,
cross, detached, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable,
disagreeing, discordant, discreet, discrepant, disharmonious,
dislikable, displeasing, disproportionate, dissident, dissociable,
dissonant, distant, distasteful, divergent, expressionless,
forbidding, frigid, frosty, grating, guarded, hostile, icy,
immiscible, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, inaccordant,
incompatible, inharmonious, insociable, intolerable, introverted,
jangling, jarring, mislikable, modest, mopey, mopish, morose,
negative, nongregarious, odious, offish, out of accord,
out of whack, remote, removed, repressed, repugnant, reserved,
restrained, reticent, retiring, self-contained, self-sufficient,
shrinking, snug, socially incompatible, standoff, standoffish,
subdued, sullen, suppressed, unaffable, unapproachable,
unclubbable, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, undemonstrative,
unexpansive, unfriendly, ungenial, unharmonious, uninviting,
unlikable, unlovable, unpleasant, unsociable, unsocial, variant,
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