Gregarious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GREGARIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• (of a person) fond of company; sociable
• (of animals) living in flocks or loosely organized communities
• (of plants) growing in open clusters or in pure associations
• Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone.
• (of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species
• instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others
• (of plants) growing in groups that are close together
• tending to associate with others of one's kind
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• tending to associate with others of one\'s kind

Words related to GREGARIOUS

gregarian11 gregariously17 gregariousness16

Words that contain GREGARIOUS

gregariously17 nongregarious15 gregariousness16 gregariousnesse17 gregariousnesses18

How to use GREGARIOUS in a sentence

• How Miss Slayback, by habit not gregarious, met Mr.
• Their habits are gregarious, and they feed on smaller fish and other marine animals.
• These facts are also familiar to everyone beforehand, and they present a solid basis for gregarious conversation.
• One of the most attractive sights on such occasions is caused by the flocks of Snow-Buntings, which are particularly gregarious in their habits.
• The solitary one behind is cut off from mankind, and accordingly his gregarious instinct not infrequently makes him nip on to the front seat in search of companionship.
• But I am now concerned only with their blind gregarious instincts, which are conspicuously distinct from the ordinary social desires.
• A really intelligent nation might be held together by far stronger forces than are derived from the purely gregarious instincts.
• On the other hand, deer and sheep, which are both gregarious, and both eat the same food and graze within the same enclosure, avoid one another.
• We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be liked in sight of our fellow, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.
• His wife accompanies him in his solitary rambles, for they are not gregarious.
• Their very aversion to living more than one family in a cave and their lack of sociability mark a strong contrast with the ancient cliff-dwellers, who were by nature gregarious.
• Being a gregarious as well as an idle young man, he was pleased with his own popularity, and the number of his invitations for country-house visits.
• Her daily activities sufficed the gregarious instincts, and it was often a relief to move about in silence.
• The birds of the country, moreover, are gregarious, so that a locality may be deserted and silent at one time and swarming with them at another.
• As man progressed in civilisation, and grew to be definitely gregarious, hospitality became more a matter of course.
• None of them are gregarious, as in the case of dogs and wolves.
• It thus happens that, though the gregarious instincts of elephants prompt them to form large gatherings, if circumstances necessitate it a herd breaks up under several leaders.
• Thus they satisfied their gregarious instinct while within easy call of home.
• He was gregarious by nature, and, besides, he was in want of his mid-day meal.
• The Irish mood is gregarious, expansive, glowing, and eager to keep in intimate touch with the movements and affairs of humanity.
• It was found, apparently gregarious, under dead leaves in an islet in Trinity Bay.
• It was taken in the towing net, gregarious, in the sea off Cape Howe, the south-east corner of Australia.
• Like the gregarious tenants of the air in their annual migrations, they brought their true home, that is to say their charities with them.
• The stage of the gregarious instinct is shown by the fact that they all play together.
• I took the lead, for though cattle are less gregarious by nature than other animals, under pressure of excitement they will follow a leader.
• Little gregarious by nature, Paris had already ceased to delight me in the same way that it had delighted me at first.
• Gregarious sentiment is passive, watchful, expectant, at once powerful and indistinct, troubled and fascinated by things merely possible.
• He was essentially gregarious and recognized the need of friendship.
• They are gregarious, depressed below the surface, of vast extent, black in the centre, usually surrounded by a region of partial darkness, beyond which is excessive light.
• With us they kept the common nature of their kind, and were not gregarious.
• All gregarious animals have perfectly well defined social regulations, which the young must learn and respect.
• The poor, being intensely gregarious and very susceptible to all collective emotions, are still liable to fits of warlike excitement.

Similar words containing GREGARIOU without suffix s

gregariously17 nongregarious15 gregariousness16 gregariousnesse17 gregariousnesses18

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