Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Seeking and enjoying the company of others; sociable. synonym: social.
- adjective Tending to move in or form a group with others of the same kind.
- adjective Botany Growing in groups that are close together but not densely clustered or matted.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Disposed to live in flocks or herds; inclined to gather in companies; not preferring solitude or restricted companionship: as, cattle and sheep are gregarious animals; men are naturally gregarious.
- In botany, growing in open clusters, not matted together.
- By Drude and subsequent writers gregarious plants are further determined as growing in patches among other vegetation, thus contrasting with social species, which dominate the whole ground.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a person Describing one who enjoys being in
crowds andsocializing . - adjective zoology Of animals that travel in
herds orpacks .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others
- adjective (of plants) growing in groups that are close together
- adjective (of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Kebron was the mortal enemy of the term "gregarious," likely to try and eliminate it from any dictionary in any language.
Fire on High Peter David 1998
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Kebron was the mortal enemy of the term "gregarious," likely to try and eliminate it from any dictionary in any language.
Fire on High Peter David 1998
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Kebron was the mortal enemy of the term "gregarious," likely to try and eliminate it from any dictionary in any language.
Fire on High Peter David 1998
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But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law '.
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But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.
Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gullivers Travels 1946
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His son, whom he described as a gregarious comic, was trying to support his 2-year-old daughter Aniyah, who lives with the West family and is being raised by her grandparents.
Fore, right! < 2010
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But during the last two years of the Bush administration, Bolton's successor, Afghan-born Zalmay Khalilzad, became known as a gregarious and affable diplomat who improved relations somewhat.
HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News 2009
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On the one hand the novel is that friendly old beast, the late Victorian realist novel in English - gregarious, self-aware, pompous.
Eve's Alexandria 2008
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Garrigus - his name might as well be "gregarious" - was thankful, too, despite a tough way to lose.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Garrigus - his name might as well be "gregarious" - was thankful, too, despite a tough way to lose.
The Seattle Times 2011
guitar commented on the word gregarious
Sociable an enjoying the company of others
July 8, 2014
mohitanand commented on the word gregarious
to be likely to socialize with others
Often we think that great leaders are those who are gregarious, always in the middle of a large group of people; yet, as Mahatma Gandhi and many others have shown us, leaders can also be introverted.
October 11, 2016