| 词汇 | congenial |
| 释义 | congenial adjective uk /kənˈdʒiː.ni.əl/ us /kənˈdʒiː.ni.əl/ friendly and pleasant: 友善的;令人愉快的;宜人的 congenial company/surroundings友善的伙伴／令人愉快的环境 making you feel happy and comfortable friendlyThe pub has such a friendly atmosphere. congenialThere are many congenial places to stop on your way through the Lake District. convivialThese seaside inns have a convivial atmosphere. warmThe hostess gave us a warm welcome. behaving in a kind and pleasant way friendlyI like his sister - she's so friendly. niceHer boyfriend is really nice. amiableShe was perfectly amiable. genialOur genial host led us to our room. congenialHe's very congenial and so quite likeable. Causing pleasure agreeable agreeableness agreeably all things to all peopleidiom attractive distraction diverting divertingly do someone the world of goodidiom do someone's heart goodidiom indulgent indulgently jovial jovially keep on the right side of someoneidiom sensuously serendipitous sweeten swooning swooningly congenial | American Dictionarycongenial adjective us/kənˈdʒin·jəl/ pleasant and friendly; producing a feeling of comfort or satisfaction: We spent a relaxed evening with congenial friends. Examples of congenialcongenial In the end, preference for one source over the other may depend on whose evolutionary stories one finds congenial. We found much that is congenial to our way of thinking in these three commentaries. This view, which is the one shown in the examples above, is congenial to traditional assemblers. The best that we can hope for is a metaphysics consistent with and congenial to the doctrine. The other, equally important, is to satisfy behavioral scientists that the vision we outline provides a congenial home for their ongoing work. By the same token, it has proved all too congenial for ecologists to regard the human presence as an inessential component of the ecological landscape. The medieval approach to toleration, however, is ' congenial to social orders that subscribe to an orthodox religion or constrained civil order ' (p. 120). But the discourse of political economy was particularly congenial to the spirit of the great evangelical societies. Shadowtime might never become a congenial pageant, but it deserves better than the current misadventure. He also comes across as especially congenial in his personal dealings with wary chiefs and warriors. In this matter, efforts for the reform of a state that is not only more efficacious but also more congenial with democracy are badly needed. As often as not the public house was a convenient and congenial centre for these activities with the inevitable association of drunkenness. The obligation to improve one's self extends to a responsibility to be productive and congenial. These care-workers had constructed an occupation for themselves that they found congenial. So polarization of the type commonly found in our field - and others - gives people heart and simplifies matters in ways congenial to their thought. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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