0 (of a person) not friendly and pleasant:
Unfortunately I found him almost as uncongenial as his sister.
He found post-war college life uncongenial, and after two terms decided that it would be better to earn a living.
My liking for a bargain enables me to overlook uncongenial retail surroundings.
In this period the religious climate proved uncongenial to such ideas.
He proved himself a capable, if somewhat uncongenial, manager of men.
If we find the rules of a particular activity uncongenial or impossible to keep, we can, at least in principle, contract out and play a different game.
A career in commerce proved uncongenial, so he entered the General Baptist/Unitarian ministry.
Space scientists theorise the existence of a virtually unlimited array of other planetary environments, almost all of which are uncongenial to human life.
In addition to their weak social positions, they are almost always bearers of ideas that are uncongenial to prevalent institutions and practices.
Some did certainly succumb to the new pressure and lost their fortunes, some went into hibernation anticipating that this uncongenial phase would soon be over.
In the process, they render the area uncongenial to them, and they either die or move on.
Finally, when projection fails, departments will often come under intense pressure from social groups to circumvent the unforeseen or unintended consequences of uncongenial policies by engaging in partial implementation.
