gregarious

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of GREGARIOUS

likely to seek or enjoy the company of others <a gregarious child who ran up to every person on the playground and wanted to be their friend>

Synonyms boon, clubbable (also clubable), clubby, companionable, extroverted (also extraverted), gregarious, outgoing, sociable, social

Near Antonyms misanthropic; aloof, cold, cool, detached, distant, frosty, remote, reserved, standoffish; mum, mute, reticent, silent, taciturn

Antonyms antisocial, insociable, introverted, nongregarious, reclusive, unsociable, unsocial

tending to group with others of the same kind <walruses are highly gregarious>

Synonyms gregarious, sociable, social

Related Words associational, consociational, subsocial; dependent, parasitic (also parasitical), precocial, symbiotic

Near Antonyms autonomous, independent, self-contained, semiautonomous, semi-independent; altricial, self-subsistent, self-sufficient, self-supporting, self-sustaining; lone, recluse, reclusive, unsociable

Antonyms nonsocial, solitary

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