gregarious
Who enjoys being in crowds and socializing.
Adjective
- Who enjoys being in crowds and socializing.
- 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:
- Growing in open clusters or colonies; not matted together.
- Pertaining to a flock or crowd.
Origin
First attested in 1688; borrowed from Latin gregārius, see -ious.