From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englisha political/social etc animala political/social etc animalinformalINTERESTED someone who is interested in politics, in meeting other people etc He is simply not a social animal. → animal
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a political/social etc animal• I was never a political animal.• One advantage in being a social animal is that one need not discover practices for oneself.• To Freud man is a social animal without being entirely a socialized animal.• Unlike Wellington, Harriett was a political animal through and through, whose ambition was that her men should succeed. 