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PRONUNCIATION OF UNGENIAL

ungenial  [ʌnˈdʒiːnɪəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNGENIAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ungenial is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UNGENIAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ungenial in the English dictionary

The definition of ungenial in the dictionary is unfriendly.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNGENIAL


achenial
əˈkiːnɪəl
akenial
əˈkiːnɪəl
catamenial
ˌkætəˈmiːnɪəl
centennial
sɛnˈtɛnɪəl
colonial
kəˈləʊnɪəl
contubernyal
ˌkɒntjʊˈbɜːnɪəl
corneal
ˈkɔːnɪəl
cuneal
ˈkjuːnɪəl
hernial
ˈhɜːnɪəl
hymenial
haɪˈmiːnɪəl
matrimonial
ˌmætrɪˈməʊnɪəl
menial
ˈmiːnɪəl
penial
ˈpiːnɪəl
perennial
pəˈrɛnɪəl
primigenial
ˌpraɪmɪˈdʒiːnɪəl
primogenial
ˌpraɪməʊˈdʒiːnɪəl
splenial
ˈspliːnɪəl
testimonial
ˌtɛstɪˈməʊnɪəl
venial
ˈviːnɪəl
xenial
ˈziːnɪəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNGENIAL

ungear
ungelded
ungenerosity
ungenerous
ungenerously
ungenitured
ungenteel
ungenteelly
ungentility
ungentle
ungentlemanlike
ungentlemanly
ungentleness
ungently
ungentrified
ungenuine
ungenuineness
ungerminated
unget

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNGENIAL

bicentennial
biennial
congenial
cranial
denial
domanial
extracranial
finial
genial
intercolonial
intracranial
millennial
monial
neocolonial
patrimonial
post-colonial
self-denial
transcranial
triennial
uncongenial

Synonyms and antonyms of ungenial in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ungenial» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNGENIAL

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The translations of ungenial from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ungenial» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

ungenial
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ungenial
570 millions of speakers

English

ungenial
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ungenial
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ungenial
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ungenial
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ungenial
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ungenial
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ungenial
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ungenial
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ungenial
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ungenial
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

ungenial
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ungenial
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ungenial
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ungenial
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निष्ठुर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

suratsız
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ungenial
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ungenial
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ungenial
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ungenial
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ungenial
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ungenial
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ungenial
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ungenial
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ungenial

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNGENIAL»

The term «ungenial» is used very little and occupies the 179.874 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNGENIAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ungenial» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ungenial» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ungenial

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNGENIAL»

Discover the use of ungenial in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ungenial and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Climate of Great Britain; Or: Remarks on the Change it ...
Remarks on the Change it Has Undergone, Particulary Within the Last Fifty Years . Accounting for the Increasing Humidity and Consequent Cloudiness and Coldness of Our Springs and Summers; with the Effects Such Ungenial Seasons Have ...
John Williams (Esq.), 1806
2
Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine
Rather a cold and ungenial month ; easterly winds prevailing. and the thermometer ranging from 32° to 66° ; at the end of month beautiful summer weather, and the crops looking well. NooKroN.-Cold and ungenial month. DEANSTON.-Except ...
George James Symons, 1866
3
The Meteorological Magazine
Bather a cold and ungenial month ; easterly winds prevailing, and the thermometer ranging from 32° to 66° ; at the end of month beautiful summer weather, and the crops looking well. Nookton. — Cold and ungenial month. Deanston.
‎1866
4
Popular Science
The wife and children of the kindly man are a constant pleasure to him, where the wife and children of the sour-tempered, ungenial husband and father are apt to grow gloomy and quarrelsome. His friends and relatives are kindlier than those ...
5
Romantic Revisions
This negative expression is strange: 'no pleasure', 'ungenial'. Dorothy more characteristically describes rough weather positively: a morning 'very dankish misty, wettish' (16 November 1801), or 'miserable clashy snowy' (17 February 1802), ...
Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley, 1992
6
The Gardener's Magazine, and Register of Rural and Domestic ...
This seems to be a constitutional disease, and to arise from a defect in the organisation, occasioned by impure qualities taken in by the root from an ungenial subsoil." (p. 1 17.) Strictly speaking, a disease cannot be entirely " constitutional ...
John Claudius Loudon, 1835
7
Encyclopaedia perthensis, or, Universal dictionary of the ...
Not kind or favourable to nature — The northern shires have an ungenial air. Swift. — Sullen seas that wash th' ungenial pole. Thomson, » UNGENTLE, adj. Harsh ; rude ; rugged. — Strike, ungentle death. Sbak.— Vicious, ungentle, foolishly ...
‎1816
8
The Gardens Magazine
This seems to be a constitutional disease, and to arise from a defect in the organisation, occasioned by impure qualities taken in by the root from an ungenial subsoil." (p. 1 17.) Strictly speaking, a disease cannot be entirely " constitutional ...
J.C Loudon, 1835
9
The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic ...
June I. Taking into consideration the infancy of the Society and the ungenial spring, the exhibition was most creditable. (Gard. Gaz., June 23.) Kent. — Dover Horticultural Society. — Tunc\2. The show was uncommonly good, and called forth ...
John Claudius Loudon, 1838
10
The small house at Allington
by the warmth of a southern wall ; or that fruit of slower growth, as to which nature works without assistance, on which the sun operates in its own time, — or perhaps never operates if some ungenial shade has been allowed to interpose itself ?
Anthony Trollope, 1865

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Ungenial [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/ungenial>. Apr 2024 ».
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