(a.) Partaking of the same nature; allied by natural characteristics; kindred; sympathetic.
(a.) Naturally adapted; suited to the disposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I find it very congenial to live in the natural beauty of the place I have in Connecticut.
(2) Yes, Scottish leader Ruth Davidson was congenial and popular, but she was still, you know, a Tory.
(3) They are "very congenial, caring people," said Pieters-James.
(4) Additionally, it is suggested that the conditioning analysis of tolerance is congenial with a current view of habituation, and there may be a similar associative basis for the response decrement to both endogenous and exogenous iterative stimulation.
(5) Paget dramatized this clear distinction between the intrinsic properties of the cancer cell and the properties of the host when he expanded on the analogy between tumors and plants: "When a plant goes to seed, its seeds are carried in all directions; but they can only live and grow if they fall on congenial soil."
(6) The active transport system is congenial to fluorescine - Km = 4-10(-5) M, which renders even small amounts of this substance to be quickly removed from the milieu.
(7) The medium mountain ranges have a congenial climate in connection with its abundant forests.
(8) She said she was enjoying the kindness and congeniality of the crowd, an antidote, she said, to the negativity of the last 18 months.
(9) Physical and mental activity, good health, adequate means, well considered accommodation, an absorbing interest, congenial company and a philosophy which encompasses mortality are among the assets and attitudes which may promote successful retirement.
(10) Another showing for Sandra Bullock film Miss Congeniality on Channel Five had 1.2 million viewers and a 5% share between 9pm and 11.10pm.
(11) Face set with the look of determined congeniality, glass of orange juice in hand, Young (who generally cares so little about "promotion" that he didn't bother to include any songs from the-then new On the Beach in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 74 tour repertoire) braced himself to face the press, a few at a time in manager Elliot Roberts' Sunset Strip office, a fortnight before the release of Tonight's the Night .
(12) He said mixed classrooms were “far more congenial”, and he had “much preferred” being head of a school where children of both sexes were taught.
(13) The bloody creeks of the Niger delta may yet seem strangely congenial.
(14) The well-known autosomal-recessive inheritance of the disease was masked by a pseudodominant appearance, reflecting the striking frequency of congenial marriages.
(15) In person, in private, he displays a congenial persona not always evident at the dispatch box.
(16) In perfectly bucolic and culturally congenial surroundings, Hawthorne's imagination took flight and his pen dashed over the page, producing 21 stories, many of which, including "Rappaccini's Daughter", would be collected in 1846 as Mosses from an Old Manse.
(17) A very congenial silence for the CBI and other business lobby groups, who can urge ministers to cut benefits for the poor harder and faster, knowing their members are still getting their bungs.
(18) Even colleagues who disagree violently with his view of the world concede that Wolfowitz was far more congenial than the usual Washington apparatchik.
(19) These achievement-congenial conditions characterize entrepreneurial business and, among those occupations traditionally filled by women, teaching.
(20) On a personal level, Neuberger is giving up a comfortable berth at the law courts in the Strand, where he can choose to sit with the most congenial of his many fellow judges, in exchange for a much smaller 12-judge court in Westminster, physically isolated from the rest of the judiciary and where tensions are never far below the surface.
Sociable
Definition:
(n.) A gathering of people for social purposes; an informal party or reception; as, a church sociable.
(n.) A carriage having two double seats facing each other, and a box for the driver.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its buildings, arranged around a sociable courtyard and a slice of towpath, also nourish a community of businesses that sustain between 250 and 300 jobs, all of which could go if the site’s new owner, Galliard Homes, has its way.
(2) The sociable friendly infants received higher scores on both cognitive tests than the less sociable babies did.
(3) Emotionality, activity, sociability and impulsivity (EASI) and components of each trait were studied in a sample of 137 pairs of young twins (two to six years of age) and their parents (548 individuals).
(4) But fear not - if you'd like to find companionship or love, sign up here to view profiles of the kind of erudite, sociable and friendly folk who would never normally dream of going out with you.
(5) But it was sociable, too – Roberto organised a barbecue (with steaks from his cattle-farmer friend) and a fish supper (with octopus stew from his fisherman friend).
(6) If you’re not sociable you don’t last long,” says Alex, “but if you can get along with people you make friends for life almost immediately, from all over the world.” She isn’t alone.
(7) Manifest in the preschool years, autism always affects sociability, communication, and the child's repertoire of activities and interests.
(8) The multiple motive hypothesis of physical attractiveness suggests that women are attracted to men whose appearances elicit their nurturant feelings, who appear to possess sexual maturity and dominance characteristics, who seem sociable, approacheable, and of high social status.
(9) Tests set up with isolated mice of two groups (aggressive and "fearful") evidenced that diazepam and medazepam weaken the behavioral manifestations of the partner's avoidance, increase sociability in "fearful" mice and help to regain the ability for elementary intraspecies contacts.
(10) The results have shown the improvement not only in movement possibilities of the patients, but also the improvement in majority of the psychological parameters (IQ, emotionality, sociability scale etc.
(11) I can understand why this blurring of boundaries has happened: TV is a very informal, sociable industry.
(12) She's sociable, she loves children - we've got four.
(13) Measures of the home environment were, however, correlated with measures of infant sociability (assessed inside and outside the test situation): sociable infants had sociable mothers.
(14) Their sociability is seen in their attraction to peers, their directing to peers of such distinctively social behaviors as vocalizations, smiles, and gestures, and the predominantly friendly nature of their behavior.
(15) Strong relationships were found between both measures of sociability and both measures of cognitive competence.
(16) Secure classification in the Strange Situation was associated with quality of secure-base behavior at home (i.e., higher Q-sort security scores) and with sociability, but not with dependency scores.
(17) Individual unfolding that depends on the sociable conditions is mainly discussed in two parts of interrogation: What form and idea of aged people does the society have?
(18) He's a very nice chap and very sociable, but I don't think at this stage he's of any use to the newspaper," he confesses.
(19) It also made them feel more alert, steady, sociable, and strong.
(20) ; millions of excess neurons = 8900, 8650, 8550; IQ = 107, 100, 85); maturational delay (age to walk alone, age of first intercourse, age of death); sexual restraint (ovulation rate, intercourse frequencies, sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS); quiescent temperament (aggressiveness, anxiety, sociability); and social organization (law abidingness, marital stability, mental health).