gregarious

Who enjoys being in crowds and socializing.

Adjective

  1. Who enjoys being in crowds and socializing.
  2. Of animals that travel in herds or packs.
    • The Fin-Back is not gregarious. He seems a whale-hater, as some men are man-haters. - 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 32, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers;...
    • Rabbits are lively at nightfall, and when evening rain drives them underground they still feel gregarious. - 1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down:
  3. Growing in open clusters or colonies; not matted together.
  4. Pertaining to a flock or crowd.

Origin

First attested in 1688; borrowed from Latin gregārius, see -ious.

Forms

more gregarious most gregarious

Synonyms

outgoing sociable social

Antonyms

ungregarious nongregarious

Derived

gregariously gregariousness semigregarious