Ungenial

adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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

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"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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