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Congenial

//kənˈd͡ʒiːniəl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having the same or very similar nature, personality, tastes, habits or interests.

    "No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms; / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof - to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes."

  2. 2
    Friendly or sociable.

    "The congenial bartender makes the Hog’s Head an inviting place to hang out during the weekends."

  3. 3
    Suitable to one’s needs.

    "What was it that made this notion of mimesis, in spite of its inherent difficulties that only the dialectical method enables him to avoid, seem so useful and congenial to Plato?"

Adjective
  1. 1
    (used of plants) capable of cross-fertilization or of being grafted wordnet
  2. 2
    suitable to your needs wordnet

Etymology

From con- + genial.

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