He found office life uncongenial, and eventually left the company.
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Uncongenial
Synonyms for "uncongenial" (128 found)
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Strong matches (38)
Related words (64)
inconsonantinharmoniousinhospitableinsociableintolerableintrovertedjanglingjarringmislikablemismatchedmodestmopeymopishmorosemotleynastynegativenongregariousodiousoffensive
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offisholympianout of accordout of whackremoteremovedrepellentrepressedreservedrestrainedreticentretiringself-containedself-sufficientshrinkingsnugsocially incompatiblestandoffstandoffishsubduedsullensuppressedunaffableunapproachableunclubbableuncommunicativeuncompanionableundemonstrativeunexpansiveunfitunfriendlyungenialunharmoniousuninvitingunlikableunlikeableunlikelyunlovableunsociableunsocialunsympatheticvariantwithdrawn
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8 entriessimilar
8 entriesTranslations
13 translations across 4 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- неподходящ adj (not appropriate; unsuitable)
- неприятен adj (not pleasing; disagreeable)
- несъответстващ adj (not congenial, compatible, sympathetic)
Dutch
3 entries- onaangenaam adj (not pleasing; disagreeable)
- onpassend adj (not congenial, compatible, sympathetic)
- onpassend adj (not appropriate; unsuitable)
German
4 entries- divergent adj (not congenial, compatible, sympathetic)
- unangemessen adj (not appropriate; unsuitable)
- unangenehm adj (not pleasing; disagreeable)
- ungleich adj (not congenial, compatible, sympathetic)
Hindi
1 entries- असौहार्दपूर्ण adj (not congenial, compatible, sympathetic)
Sample sentences
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A few days brought time into that general routine of small observances which make up ordinary existence; but never had Francesca felt herself in a more uncongenial atmosphere.
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However, they were all waiting - all the sixteen or twenty pilgrims of them - for something; and upon my word it did not seem an uncongenial occupation, from the way they took it, though the only thing that ever came to them was disease - as far as I could see.
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