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Related topics: Animals
gregariousgre‧gar‧i‧ous /ɡrɪˈɡeəriəs $ -ˈɡer-/ adjective 1 FRIENDLYfriendly and preferring to be with other people SYN sociable OPP solitary2 technicalHBA gregarious animals tend to live in a group OPP solitary —gregariously adverb —gregariousness noun [uncountable]
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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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