English Dictionary

congenial

adj

Having the same or very similar nature, personality, tastes, habits or interests. / Friendly or sociable. / Suitable to one’s needs.

She found him to be a congenial companion on their trip.

意味（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.

意味（2）

Friendly or sociable.

The congenial bartender makes the Hog’s Head an inviting place to hang out during the weekends.

意味（3）

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?