ungenial

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ genial.

Adjective

ungenial (comparative more ungenial, superlative most ungenial)

  1. Not genial.
    • 1862, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 60, October 1862‎[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.
    • 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter I, in Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes […], London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, […], →OCLC, page 1:
      The weather is raw and boisterous in winter, shifty and ungenial in summer, and a downright meteorological purgatory in the spring.
    • 1892, Charles Lamb, The Best Letters of Charles Lamb‎[2]:
      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.
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