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colonial

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of colonial

tending to group with others of the same kind

colonial organisms

Synonyms of colonial

gregarious, sociable, social

Words Related to colonial

associational, consociational, subsocial

dependent, parasitic (also parasitical), precocial, symbiotic

Near Antonyms of colonial

autonomous, independent, self-contained, semiautonomous, semi-independent

altricial, self-subsistent, self-sufficient, self-supporting, self-sustaining

lone, recluse, reclusive, unsociable

Antonyms of colonial

nonsocial, solitary

colonial

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of colonial

a person who settles in a new region

European colonials who built coffee plantations in East Africa

Synonyms of colonial

colonist, colonizer, frontiersman, homesteader, pioneer, settler

Words Related to colonial

explorer, pathfinder, trailblazer

bushranger, mountain man, woodsman

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