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Definition of Gregarious
1. Adjective. (of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species. "Gregarious bird species"
Attributes: Gregariousness
Also: Social
Similar to: Social
Derivative terms: Gregariousness
Antonyms: Ungregarious
2. Adjective. Instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others. "He is a gregarious person who avoids solitude"
3. Adjective. (of plants) growing in groups that are close together.
Definition of Gregarious
1. a. Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone.
Definition of Gregarious
1. Adjective. (context: of a person) Describing one who enjoys being in crowds and socializing. ¹
2. Adjective. (zoology) Of animals that travel in herds or packs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gregarious
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Gregarious
1. Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone. "No birds of prey are gregarious." (Ray) 2. (of people) enjoying companionship; sociable; not solitary. 3. (of plants) growing in clusters. Grega"riously, Gre-ga'ri-ous-ness. Origin: L. Gregarius, fr. Grex, gregis, herd; cf. Gr. To assemble, Skr. Jar to approach. Cf. Congregate, Egregious. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gregarious
Literary usage of Gregarious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1868)
"Mountainous districts, Abyssinia ; in pairs. Oreotragus. Mountains of the Cape;
sub-gregarious. Thar. Hills of Nepaul; not gregarious. ..."
2. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1868)
"Rocky hills of Deccan ; not gregarious. <-< ' Arabica. ... Arid deserts, Asia;
periodically gregarious. Suborbital pits. f Antilope ..."
3. The Life of Reason; Or, The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana (1905)
"This emotion is gregarious or impersonally social. ... gregarious sentiment is
passive, watchful, expectant, at once powerful and indistinct, ..."
4. The Life of Reason; Or, The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana (1905)
"This emotion is gregarious or impersonally social. ... gregarious sentiment is
passive, watchful, expectant, at once powerful and indistinct, ..."
5. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edvard Westermarck (1908)
"... embrace " '—although embrace even as an outward expression of affection plays
a very insignificant part in the social relations of gregarious animals. ..."
6. Introduction to Sociology by Emory Stephen Bogardus (1917)
"The gregarious instinct. Elementally, human association is based on the gregarious
... The gregarious instinct is commonly confirmed by habit. ..."
7. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"... by a Butterfly— Entomology — Ants—Wasp killing a Spider — Parasitical
Spider—Artifices of an Epeira—gregarious Spider—Spider with an unsymmetrical Web. ..."
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