Word Meanings - CONGENIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Partaking of the same nature; allied by natural characteristics; kindred; sympathetic. Congenial souls! whose life one avarice joins. Pope. 2. Naturally adapted; suited to the disposition. "Congenial clime." C. J. Fox. To defame the excellence

Additional info about word: CONGENIAL

1. Partaking of the same nature; allied by natural characteristics; kindred; sympathetic. Congenial souls! whose life one avarice joins. Pope. 2. Naturally adapted; suited to the disposition. "Congenial clime." C. J. Fox. To defame the excellence with which it has no sympathy . . . is its congenial work. I. Taylor.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONGENIAL)

• Akin
• Related
• agnate
• cognate
• homogeneous
• similar
• consanguineous
• congenial
• allied
• sympathetic
• Belonging
• connected
• appertaining
• obligatory
• accompanying
• Calculated
• Fitted
• adapted
• conducive
• Compatible
• Consistent
• consentaneous
• harmonious
• coexistent
• correspondent
• congruous
• accordant
• agreeable
• consonant
• Kindred
• Congenial
• cogitate
• akin
• related

Related words: (words related to CONGENIAL)

• CONSONANT
  An articulate sound which in utterance is usually combined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alphabet other than a vowel; also, a letter or character representing such a sound. Note: Consonants are divided into
• SYMPATHETIC
  1. Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing. Far wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind. Goldsmith. 2. Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy. Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. Gray. Produced by sympathy; --
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• CONSENTANEOUS
  Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent. A good law and consentaneous to reason. Howell. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ness, n.
• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• ALLICIENT
  That attracts; attracting. -- n.
• ALLINEATION; ALINEEATION
  Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• ALLITERAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
• CALCULATED
  1. Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball. 2. Adapted by calculation,
• COGITATE
  To engage in continuous thought; to think. He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth. Bacon. (more info) prob. fr. co-
• HOMOGENEOUSNESS
  Sameness 9kind or nature; uniformity of structure or material.
• ALLITERATOR
  One who alliterates.
• ACCORDANTLY
  In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.
• ALLIED
  United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• SIMILARY
  Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South.
• CONGENIALLY
  In a congenial manner; as, congenially married or employed.
• GALLIASS
  See GALLEASS
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• DALLIANCE
  1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination.
• KAKARALLI
  A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• CORALLIGENOUS
  producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• REALLIANCE
  A renewed alliance.
• IMPALLID
  To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham.
• HEMEROCALLIS
  A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
• HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
  See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• CRYSTALLIZATION
  The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. Note: The systems of
• MISALLIED
  Wrongly allied or associated.
• BALLISTER
  A crossbow.