Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Seeking and enjoying the company of others; sociable. See Synonyms at social.
- adj. Tending to move in or form a group with others of the same kind: gregarious bird species.
- adj. Botany Growing in groups that are close together but not densely clustered or matted.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
Wiktionary
- adj. of a person Describing one who enjoys being in crowds and socializing.
- adj. zoology Of animals that travel in herds or packs.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others
- adj. (of plants) growing in groups that are close together
- adj. (of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species
Etymologies
- From Latin gregārius. (Wiktionary)
- Latin gregārius, belonging to a flock, from grex, greg-, flock; see ger- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Kebron was the mortal enemy of the term "gregarious," likely to try and eliminate it from any dictionary in any language.”
“But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law '.”
“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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“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.”
“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.”
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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.”
“Garrigus - his name might as well be "gregarious" - was thankful, too, despite a tough way to lose.”
“(RNS) The Islamic Society of North America, the largest Muslim group in the U.S. and Canada, on Tuesday (Sept. 28) named a gregarious Sudanese-born Virginia imam as its new president.”
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“MOTT pilots called the gregarious Murphy “The Mayor” because he could enter a room full of strangers and leave with two new friends.”
“These vultures certainly may be called gregarious, for they seem to have pleasure in society, and are not solely brought together by the attraction of a common prey.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gregarious’.
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1100
abound, technology, branch of knowled..., prognosticate, automaton, matron, an older married ..., realm, special field of ..., kingdom, annals, historical records and 981 more...
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GRE 2014
abate, abdicate, abase, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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allover
reintegrate, spight, surveillant, harmonize, Colophon, workplace, bigoted, unsighted, bridgework, salutation, voltmeter, octane and 159 more...
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501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
zealot, wistful, welter, wary, whimsical, warranted, vortex, vivisection, volatile, vitiate, viscous, visage and 787 more...
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501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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From reading
Collected from reading
venerate, reprobate, reticent, adoration, ethereal, ephemeral, equivocal, contumacious, heinous, solicitous, agnostic, aberration and 335 more...
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501
Classic
irk, teem, blight, pith, moot, mete, ire, bane, bilk, boor, elan, ado and 401 more...
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501
Classic
bane, bilk, boor, elan, ado, toil, onus, aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august and 401 more...
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List 2(starting at 260)
mammoth, overt, valor, aspire, relegate, bias, incisive, scurry, precipitate, singular, inveigh, repulse and 48 more...
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GRE 1100
drudgery, implore, hapless, nuance, wrest, incipient, inadvertent, tremulous, bristle, euphemism, disdain, pugnacious and 346 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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My List
frugal, vicissitude, scatter, fiduciary, calf, mesmerize, eke, unkempt, callousness, heist, fumble, flinty and 31 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1824 more...
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magoosh1
aberration, aboveboard, abysmal, ace, affable, aghast, alacrity, ambiguous, ambivalent, ameliorate, amenable, amiable and 205 more...
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aykut gre
mossy, intrusive, mettlesome, soliloquy, mocking, dissembler, prevarication, histrionics, aphorism, distinction, concise, pensive and 61 more...
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