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as in outgoing
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
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as in social
tending to group with others of the same kind
walruses are highly gregarious
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as in friendliness
the quality or state of being social
his natural gregariousness serves him well as a salesman
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Recent Examples of gregarious
Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2025
Plenty of players come through New York that can’t wait to get out, but Alonso’s gregarious nature, his desire to be part of the community and, of course, his game-breaking home runs, have endeared him to the fanbase.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2025
Chavez is gregarious, positive and encouraging.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 23 Mar. 2025
Former heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman, known as much for his gregarious personality as his vicious right hook, died Friday.
—Mark Osborne, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
Not every umpire to work a Padres game this season has failed to engage the gregarious Arraez, but this series is not an isolated occurrence.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2025
Plenty of players come through New York that can’t wait to get out, but Alonso’s gregarious nature, his desire to be part of the community and, of course, his game-breaking home runs, have endeared him to the fanbase.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2025
Chavez is gregarious, positive and encouraging.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 23 Mar. 2025
Former heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman, known as much for his gregarious personality as his vicious right hook, died Friday.
—Mark Osborne, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gregarious
Adjective
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Lindsay first joined the city of Aurora alongside outgoing Mayor Richard Irvin when he was first elected in 2017.—
R. Christian Smith,
Chicago Tribune,
10 May 2025
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The story starts in 1908, when outgoing President Theodore Roosevelt handpicked a successor, the lawyerly Taft.—
Amity Shlaes,
National Review,
8 May 2025
Adjective
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Ana de Armas and Cruise were seen strolling through a park in a video and photo captured by a social media user.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
4 May 2025
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Fake words creeping like kudzu into scientific papers and dating profiles and e-mails and text messages and news outlets and social feeds and job listings and job applications.—
Jia Tolentino,
New Yorker,
3 May 2025
Noun
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Analysis provided by the finance journal Retirement Living looked at the most affordable states to retire in the United States based on three key categories: housing costs, living costs and tax friendliness.—
Joseph Hernandez,
Kansas City Star,
14 Apr. 2025
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Ready for a robot that not only looks human but also acts and reacts like one, expressing emotions like shyness, excitement or friendliness?—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
13 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Within the church, Francis shifted the pastoral practice toward a more hospitable, welcoming attitude toward those who had long felt excluded.—
John Bacon,
USA Today,
2 May 2025
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This genetic isolation, the authors of the study reasoned, suggested the region likely wasn’t a migration corridor that linked sub-Saharan Africa to Northern Africa despite the Sahara’s hospitable conditions at the time.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The whole development is designed to maximize sociability.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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Commonplace virtues turn toward vice: compassion veers toward deceit, attentive parenting toward either laxity or oppressiveness, friendship toward jealousy or contempt, sociability toward falsehood or cruelty.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Gregarious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gregarious. Accessed 14 May. 2025.
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