congenial

CEFRB2

/kənˈd͡ʒiːniəl/

adjective

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01
adjective
Friendly and pleasant to be with.
02
adjective
Extra detail
Having the same or very similar nature, personality, tastes, habits or interests.

Examples

All of our neighbors are congenial individuals and always up for a social gathering.
The congenial bartender makes the Hog’s Head an inviting place to hang out during the weekends.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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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?
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.
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.

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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.
1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XIX
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?
1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato”, in Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92, pages 453–468
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.
1995, Robin Gandy, “The Confluence of Ideas in 1936”, in The Universal Turing Machine—A Half-Century Survey

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From con- + genial.