Both Uses of
gregarious
in
1776, by McCullough
- He was gregarious, jovial, quick of mind, highly energetic— "very fat, but very active" — and all of twenty-five.†
p. 58.2 *
- She, too, was a patron of the bookstore, a correspondingly plump, gregarious young woman named Lucy Flucker, whose father, Thomas Flucker, was the royal secretary of the province.†
p. 59.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(gregarious) sociable by nature (enjoys the company of others)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Gregarious is also used to describe animals that tend to form groups with others of the same species; or plants that grow in groups that are close together.