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Adjective: uncongenial  `ún-kun'jee-nee-ul
  1. Not suitable to your tastes or needs
    "the uncongenial roommates were always fighting"; "the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs"
    - incompatible
     
  2. Very unfavourable to life or growth
    "an uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"
    - hostile, unfriendly
     
  3. Used of plant stock or scions; incapable of being grafted

See also: disagreeable, incompatible, inhospitable, uncongeniality, unfriendly, unsympathetic

Antonym: congenial

Nearest

unconditional
unconditionally
unconditioned
unconditioned reflex
unconfessed
unconfined
unconfirmed
unconformable
unconformist
unconfused
uncongenial
uncongeniality
unconnected
unconnectedness
unconquerable
unconquered
unconscientious
unconscientiousness
unconscionable
unconscionably
unconscious