gregarious

From Latin gregārius.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡɹɪˈɡɛə.ɹɪ.əs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡɹɪˈɡɛɚ.i.əs/

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gregarious (comparative more gregarious, superlative most gregarious)

1. (of a person) Who enjoys being in crowds and socializing.
2. (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.

3. (botany) Growing in open clusters or colonies; not matted together.
4. Pertaining to a flock or crowd.

• (of a person who enjoys being in crowds): outgoing, sociable, social

• (antonym(s) of “of a person”): ungregarious
• (antonym(s) of “zoology”): nongregarious