gregarious
adjUK /ɡɹɪˈɡɛə.ɹɪ.əs/ · US /ɡɹɪˈɡɛɚ.i.əs/
Etymology First attested in 1688; borrowed from Latin gregārius, see -ious.
1
Of a person Who enjoys being in crowds and socializing.
- The Fin-Back is not gregarious. He seems a whale-hater, as some men are man-haters.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 32, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 151:
- Rabbits are lively at nightfall, and when evening rain drives them underground they still feel gregarious.1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down:
4
Pertaining to a flock or crowd.
- Antonyms
- ungregarious, nongregarious
- Derived terms
- gregariously, gregariousness, semigregarious