Skip to main content

gregariousness

/gri-gair-ee-uhs/US // grɪˈgɛər i əs //UK // (ɡrɪˈɡɛərɪəs) //

群众性,聚集性,聚会,聚集力

Related Words

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : fond of the company of others; sociable.
    • : living in flocks or herds, as animals.
    • : Botany. growing in open clusters or colonies; not matted together.
    • : pertaining to a flock or crowd.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • He was a treasured friend, unrelentingly cheerful with an infectious smile and gregarious manner.

  • Swafford, a composer who has written biographies of Ives, Beethoven and Brahms, calls Mozart “the sanest, most gregarious, least self-flagellating” of his subjects, fundamentally a happy man.

  • A gregarious locust is a larger, hungrier locust than before.

  • They transform into what scientists call their “gregarious” form.

  • In addition to working on safety, researchers will need to learn more about ways to spread vaccines in various species — particularly in animals that are less gregarious than bats.

  • Yet the gregariousness of the web only intensifies his solitude.

  • On the Hill, Bonjean has a reputation for gregariousness and hosting great parties.

  • As a second choice he should be of the Thoracic type, to supply the gregariousness which the Cerebral lacks.

  • The formation of human societies is directly connected with the gregariousness of the nearest related mammals.

  • They early discover that gregariousness is one of the chief characteristics of an Oxford man.

  • They cultivate gregariousness, if it is not already temperamental, as one of the cardinal virtues.

  • One chooses between frosty seclusion and balmy gregariousness.