gregarious - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Article Images
gregarious (comparative more gregarious, superlative most gregarious)
- (of a person) Describing one who enjoys being in crowds and socializing.
- (zoology) Of animals that travel in herds or packs.
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:
The Fin-Back is not gregarious. 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 feel gregarious.
- (botany) Growing in open clusters or colonies; not matted together.
- Pertaining to a flock or crowd.
- (antonym(s) of “of a person”): ungregarious
- (antonym(s) of “zoology”): nongregarious
of a person who enjoys being in crowds
- Bulgarian: общителен (bg) (obštitelen)
- Catalan: gregari (ca)
- Chinese:
- 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:
- 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:
- Portuguese: gregário (pt)
- Romanian: gregar (ro)
- Russian: ста́дный (ru) m (stádnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: greigheach
- Serbo-Croatian: čoporski
- Spanish: gregario (es)
- Turkish: sürü hâlinde, sürücül (tr)
- Ukrainian: ста́дний (stádnyj)
- Welsh: heidiol