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gregarious

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WOTD – 28 October 2008

Etymology

FromLatingregārius.

Pronunciation

(UK)IPA^(key): /ɡɹɪˈɡɛə.ɹɪ.əs/
(US)IPA^(key): /ɡɹɪˈɡɛɚ.i.əs/
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Adjective

gregarious (comparativemoregregarious,superlativemostgregarious)

(of a person) Describing one who enjoys being incrowds andsocializing.
(zoology) Of animals that travel inherds orpacks.
- 1851 November 14,Herman Melville, chapter 32, inMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers; London:Richard Bentley,→OCLC,page151:
  The Fin-Back is notgregarious. He seems a whale-hater, as some men are man-haters.
- 1972,Richard Adams,Watership Down:
  Rabbits are lively at nightfall, and when evening rain drives them underground they still feelgregarious.
(botany) Growing in openclusters or colonies; not matted together.
Pertaining to aflock orcrowd.

Synonyms

(of a person who enjoys being in crowds):outgoing,sociable,social

Antonyms

(antonym(s) of“of a person”):ungregarious
(antonym(s) of“zoology”):nongregarious

Derived terms

Translations

of a person who enjoys being in crowds

Bulgarian:общителен (bg)(obštitelen)
Catalan:gregari (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin:社交的 (zh)(shèjiāo de),喜爱社交的
Czech:družný (cs),společenský (cs)
Danish:selskabelig
Dutch:gezellig (nl),sociaal (nl),gregarieus,uitgaand (nl)
Esperanto:grega
Finnish:seurallinen
French:sociable (fr)
Galician:social (gl) m or f
German:gesellig (de)
Greek:κοινωνικός (el)(koinonikós)
Hungarian:társaságot kedvelő
Indonesian:suka bergaul
Italian:socievole (it)
Japanese:社交的な (ja)(しゃこうてきな, shakōteki na)
Korean:사교적인 (ko)(sagyojeog-in)
Norwegian:
Bokmål:selskapelig
Nynorsk:selskapeleg,selskapleg
Persian:معاشرتی (fa)(mo'âšerati)
Portuguese:gregário (pt)
Romanian:sociabil (ro)
Russian:общи́тельный (ru) m(obščítelʹnyj),коммуника́бельный (ru) m(kommunikábelʹnyj),конта́ктный (ru) m(kontáktnyj)
Scottish Gaelic:greigheach
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic:друштвен
Roman:društven (sh)
Spanish:sociable (es)
Swedish:sällskaplig (sv)
Turkish:sosyal (tr)
Welsh:cymdeithasgar

of animals that travel in herds

Bulgarian:събиращ се на ята(sǎbirašt se na jata)
Catalan:gregari (ca)
Czech:stádní
Dutch:in kudde levend,kudde- (nl)
Finnish:lauma- (fi),laumassa elävä
French:grégaire (fr) m or f
Galician:gregario (gl) m
German:Herden- (de)
Greek:αγελαίος (el)(agelaíos)
Maori:noho rōpū
Norwegian:
Bokmål:flokk- (no)
Portuguese:gregário (pt)
Romanian:gregar (ro)
Russian:ста́дный (ru) m(stádnyj)
Scottish Gaelic:greigheach
Serbo-Croatian:čoporski
Cyrillic:друштвен
Roman:društven (sh)
Spanish:gregario (es)
Turkish:sürü hâlinde,sürücül (tr)
Ukrainian:ста́дний(stádnyj)
Welsh:heidiol

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