adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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What a pity the invitation had not been extended to some one more congenial , such as the ubiquitous Austin Mitchell.
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Long before marrying, she might have found a less pressured, more congenial position in her field.
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Electricity was flexible and clean, altogether a more congenial source of energy than steam.
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Uncle Miller was constantly making propositions, and to develop a mood more congenial to bargaining he passed the whiskey freely.
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But it just makes the relevant statistics a bit more congenial .
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But these had some place to go, and most of them made a move into more congenial Lutheran bodies.
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Clearly he found the familiar atmosphere in their house, Glamorgan, more congenial than staying with his director.
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Marxism's vision of socialism was much more congenial to the intelligentsia than that of a peasant-based utopia.
■ NOUN
surroundings
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I like to take my pleasures in more congenial surroundings , cara.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a congenial atmosphere
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Minnesotans are known for their congenial manner.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All the conditions seemed optimal: the congenial company, the wonderful weather, the historic venue.
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As options and the means of accessing them have multiplied, change has become a generally congenial rule of modern life.
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At a luxurious hotel he played golf with a very congenial group every morning and tennis most afternoons.
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Electricity was flexible and clean, altogether a more congenial source of energy than steam.
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Eliot, who lent the circle considerable prestige, found himself in congenial assorted, and in some cases strange, company.
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I had developed a very congenial relationship with my boss, who I discovered was gay also.
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One motive, of course, was his desperate need for some congenial company.
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Perhaps it still is, for it still winds peacefully between the elm-shaded meadows of the Exe valley past congenial inns.