different between alike vs congenial

alike

English

Etymology

From Middle English alike, alyke, alyche, aleche, and earlier ilike, ilik, ylike, yliche, ylich, elik, ?elic, from Old English ?el?? (like; alike; similar; equal) and Old English onl??, anl?? ("like; similar; equal"; > Middle English anlike, onlich (compare German ähnlich), reinforced by Old Norse álíkr, from Proto-Germanic *gal?kaz (alike, similar). Cognate with Scots elyke, alyke (like, alike), Saterland Frisian gliek (like, alike), West Frisian lyk, gelyk (like, alike), Dutch gelijk (like, alike), German Low German liek, gliek (like, alike), German gleich (equal, like), Danish lig (alike), Swedish lik (like, similar), Norwegian lik (like, alike), Icelandic líkur (alike, like, similar).

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /??la?k/
  • Rhymes: -a?k

Adjective

alike (comparative more alike, superlative most alike)

  1. Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
    The twins were alike.

Derived terms

  • alikeness

Translations

Adverb

alike (comparative more alike, superlative most alike)

  1. In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally.
    • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.

Derived terms

  • share and share alike

Translations

Anagrams

  • Kalie, alkie

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congenial

English

Etymology

con- +? genial

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /k?n?d??i?ni?l/

Adjective

congenial (comparative more congenial, superlative most congenial)

  1. Having the same or very similar nature, personality, tastes, habits or interests.
    • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XIX:
      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. Friendly or sociable.
    The congenial bartender makes the Hog’s Head an inviting place to hang out during the weekends.
  3. Suitable to one’s needs.
    • 1961, J. A. Philip, Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato, in Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92, page 453-468:
      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?

Antonyms

  • uncongenial

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Translations

Anagrams

  • conga line

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