Dictionary entry

Congenial

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Con‐gen″ial (�; 106), a. [Pref. con- + genial.] 1. Partaking of the same nature; allied by natural characteristics; kindred; sympathetic.

Congenial souls! whose life one avarice joins.

Pope.

2. Naturally adapted; suited to the disposition. “Congenial clime.” C. J. Fox.

To defame the excellence with which it has no sympathy... is its congenial work.

I. Taylor.