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gregarious

UK/ɡɹɪˈɡɛə.ɹɪ.əs/US/ɡɹɪˈɡɛɚ.i.əs/
adjectiveC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,745 of 15,258leans written

Gregarious means fond of company and happiest among people. A gregarious host.

In biology it describes animals that live in flocks or herds rather than alone. A gregarious person is drained by solitude in the way others are drained by a party.

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Definitions of gregarious

  1. 1adjectivegregariousFond of company and happiest among people.C1

    “She was gregarious and could not read in an empty house.”

gregarious is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin gregarius, belonging to a flock, from grex, a flock, which also gives congregate and segregate.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *h₂ger-

  2. Latin

    gregārius

  3. English, today

    gregarious

1688; Latin gregārius, see -ious.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

gregarious in the wild

  • A rookery is a colony of breeding rooks, and more broadly a colony of several types of breeding animals, generally, gregarious birds.

    Rookery

  • Many other species of grasshopper with gregarious and possibly migratory behaviour are referred to as 'locusts' in the vernacular, including the widely distributed desert locust.

    Migratory locust

  • A colony of gregarious Canada jays lives near the summit of Starr King year-round.

    Mount Waumbek

  • Clytia gregaria, sometimes referred to as the gregarious jellyfish, is a small species of hydrozoan in the family Campanulariidae.

    Clytia gregaria

  • Swarms of gregarious adults may then migrate into crop growing regions.

    Schistocerca cancellata

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.