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ungenial en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + genial.

Meanings

1. Not genial.
   • It may make folks smile and stare; but the ungenial coalition of barbarous with refined phrases will prevent you in the end from being so generally tasted as you desire to be. 1892, Charles Lamb, The Best Letters of Charles Lamb:
   • The weather is raw and boisterous in winter, shifty and ungenial in summer, and a downright meteorological purgatory in the spring. 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter I, in Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes […], London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, […], →OCLC, page 1:
   • 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. 1862, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 60, October 1862:

Forms

Deriveds

ungenialness · ungenially