Adjective: gregarious
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more gregarious |
| Superlative | most gregarious |
Sample Sentences
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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; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 151:]
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Rabbits are lively at nightfall, and when evening rain drives them underground they still feel gregarious. [1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down:]
Adjectives inflected like gregarious
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
First attested in 1688; borrowed from Latin gregārius, see -ious. See: Latin Adjectives '
gregārius'.