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.

 

© Webster 1913.

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