congenial

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Having the same or very similar nature, personality, tastes, habits or interests.
    — No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms; / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof - to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.
  2. Having the same or very similar nature, personality, tastes, habits or interests.; Friendly or sociable.
    — The congenial bartender makes the Hog’s Head an inviting place to hang out during the weekends.
  3. Having the same or very similar nature, personality, tastes, habits or interests.; Suitable to one’s needs.
    — What was it that made this notion of mimesis, in spite of its inherent difficulties that only the dialectical method enables him to avoid, seem so useful and congenial to Plato?
  4. Having the same or very similar nature, personality, tastes, habits or interests.; Agreeable to one's disposition.
    — To the question 'what is a "mechanical" process?' Turing returned the characteristic answer 'Something that can be done by a machine' and he embarked on the highly congenial task of analysing the general notion of a computing machine.

词形变化

more congenial comparative most congenial superlative

词源

From con- + genial.
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