gregarious

Word family

Related topics: Animals

1. FRIENDLYfriendly and preferring to be with other people 爱交际的，合群的 SYN sociable OPP solitary

2. technicalHBA gregarious animals tend to live in a group 〔动物〕群居的 OPP solitary

—gregariously adverbadv

—gregariousness noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

gregarious• Away from the territories the birds remain gregarious.• Colleagues call the former Democratic deputy whip gregarious and determined; he is a leading figure in the Latino world.• Kim is gregarious and fun-loving.• He throws gregarious comments at will into his customers' conversations, in between serving drinks.• Now, I was a moderately gregarious fellow.• She can be as engaging at public events as her gregarious husband.• A gregarious single woman in her mid-thirties, she came to me feeling atrophied in her position with a major insurance company.• Dolphins were happy, gregarious surface dwellers.

Origin gregarious

(1600-1700) gregarius, from grex “group of animals”

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