Ungenial
adj
adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From un- + genial.
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