GRE vocabulary
congenial
pleasant and agreeable, especially in disposition or company
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Common questions
Questions about “congenial”
Congenial (adjective) means pleasant and agreeable, especially in disposition or company
Here is congenial used in an example sentence: "The cottage offered a congenial setting for a quiet retreat."
Common synonyms for congenial include agreeable, amiable, genial, compatible.
Antonyms of congenial include disagreeable, unpleasant, uncongenial.
Congenial is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.
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