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ungenial

ungenial adjective: not genial.

Adjective

ungenial (comparative more ungenial, superlative most ungenial)

  1. Not genial.
    • 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.1862, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 60, October 1862
    • The weather is raw and boisterous in winter, shifty and ungenial in summer, and a downright meteorological purgatory in the spring.1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter I, in Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes […], London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, […], →OCLC, page 1

Forms of ungenial

comparativemore ungenial
superlativemost ungenial

Origin of ungenial

From un- + genial.

Words formed from ungenial

Questions about ungenial

What does ungenial mean?
Ungenial means not genial.
What part of speech is ungenial?
Ungenial is an adjective.

Words near ungenial in the dictionary

  1. ungenerosities
  2. ungenerosity
  3. ungenerous
  4. ungenerously
  5. ungenerousness
  6. ungenial
  7. ungeniality
  8. ungenially
  9. ungenialness
  10. ungenius
  11. ungeniuses

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