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ungenial

adj

Etymology

From un- + genial.

  1. derived from genialis
  2. derived from génial
  3. prefixed as ungenial — “un + genial”

Definitions

  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.
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA