(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.
Unsociable
Definition:
(a.) Not sociable; not inclined to society; averse to companionship or conversation; solitary; reserved; as, an unsociable person or temper.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The hours were long and sometimes unsociable, and I knew of just two people who had been offered permanent jobs.
(2) It was also hypothesized that the study of extrinsic and intrinsic factors for pathological unsocialized physical aggression may improve the design of treatment programs.
(3) Mainly, anxiogenic effect, unsocialized aggressive behaviour and explosive aggression were dramatically increased in comparison with the same symptoms present before and after treatment.
(4) For example, junior doctors will not be forced to work longer or more unsocial hours - it’s only the payment for these hours that are up for discussion.
(5) The new minimum came into force in April but a number of retailers and other businesses have offset the rise in basic pay by cutting other benefits such as special rates for unsocial hours or overtime .
(6) Recognition of unsocial hours as premium time, and paid as such.
(7) The BBC's latest offer also included technical changes to its unpredictability working allowance, which compensates staff for working often unsociable and inflexible hours.
(8) The symptom load as parameter for the degree of severity of a disorder was significantly different to the disadvantage of the unsocialized in the 13 year olds between the CD without and with socialization, but was not so in the children and young adults.
(9) NOFT infants were found to be more fussy, demanding, and unsociable.
(10) Meanwhile, sector-wide bargaining arrangements and collective agreements are being weakened by constant local pressure from employers to reduce key conditions, from sick pay to car allowances, redundancy pay and unsocial hours payments, while still maintaining pay "discipline" through centralised bargaining arrangements.
(11) I can’t work out where or how I am supposed to be working harder or longer unsociable hours.
(12) Baxter provides childcare, often at unsocial hours, for one of her daughters, a nurse and single mum with four children under the age of seven.
(13) Maniac temporality is an improductive and unsociable furious flight toward.
(14) There was no significant relationship between anomaly score and obstetrical history or 5-month infant temperament; low significant correlations were found between newborn DBH and 1) infant irritability and unsociable response and 2) 1-year anomaly scores and reported activity levels.
(15) And children miss out seeing their parents or their grandparents who work unsociable hours.
(16) Among the girls, these same behaviors were compressed in a single set, primarily relating energy level but also unsocialness, excitability, and cooperativeness positively with mesomorphy and negatively with endomorphy and ectomorphy.
(17) This represents an impending political problem for the Conservatives: their welfare cuts will seriously hurt parents working long and unsociable hours in low-paid jobs to try to cover rent and bills.
(18) The impulsive and sociable doctors of either sex were less decided about their career plans than their relatively unsociable colleagues.
(19) The sex ratio for severe disorders was male dominated even in adolescence, which was a consequence of the high rate of unsocialized disturbances of conduct in boys.
(20) Ian Sinclair London • The suggestion of an NHS membership fee is the latest example of weird and unsocial reasoning.