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Meanings of gregarious in English

Portuguese
gregário
Catalan
gregari

(Of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species.

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gregário
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Examples for "ungregarious"
Examples for "ungregarious"
1
His well-known personality and ungregarious habits have served me well, here!
The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
2
It came to him that she was, in truth, detached, sufficient to herself, an ungregarious creature moving solitarily in a mysterious world all her own.
The Purple Heights
Usage of gregarious in English
1
What happened to make the badgers of north west Europe so gregarious?
The Irish Times
2
Others are distinctively social; the gregarious instinct is pronounced in many people.
Crime: Its Cause and Treatment
3
He's just this phenomenal ball of positive energy; completely physical and gregarious.
The last lecture
4
It is also a gregarious animal; wherefore it signifies the active life.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) / From the Complete Ame...
5
The gregarious go with the future, the solitary stick by the past.
What Will He Do with It? — Complete
6
This is the only species of deer in Ceylon that is gregarious.
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
7
The spring-bucks are eminently gregarious; indeed, they may be said to swarm.
Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found: A Book of Zoology for...
8
We are gregarious animals; our ancestors have been such for countless ages.
God, the Invisible King
9
The human race is gregarious and sequacious, rather than individual and adventurous.
Horace and His Influence
10
Tall, good-looking and gregarious, Ski was one of Bravo's most popular soldiers.
The forever war
11
But the Captain was a gregarious animal, to whom solitude was insupportable.
The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales
12
Both species are gregarious, although they do not always appear in flocks.
The Boy Hunters
13
He was gregarious, full of energy, and made jokes about his predicament.
Zeitoun
14
Thus they satisfied their gregarious instinct while within easy call of home.
A Poor Wise Man
15
Fortunately, when removed from the reassuring environment of civilization, horses are gregarious.
The Mountains
16
His habits frequently induce him to prefer solitude to a gregarious life.
The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon
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Translations for gregarious
Portuguese
gregário
Catalan
gregari
Gregarious through the time
Gregarious across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common