Synonyms for non-gregarious
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : gri-gair-ee-uhs |
| Phonetic Transcription : grɪˈgɛər i əs |
Top 10 synonyms for non-gregarious Other synonyms for the word non-gregarious
- aloof
- antagonistic
- aseptic
- backward
- bashful
- brooding
- casual
- cold
- cool
- coy
- demure
- diffident
- disinterested
- distant
- easy-going
- hostile
- inaccessible
- incurious
- indifferent
- inhospitable
- introverted
- laid-back
- meek
- modest
- nongregarious
- not forward
- offish
- rabbity
- recessive
- recluse
- reclusive
- remote
- reticent
- retiring
- secretive
- self-effacing
- sensitive
- shy
- silent
- solitary
- standoffish
- stuck-up
- taciturn
- timid
- timorous
- unaffable
- unapproachable
- unassertive
- unassuming
- unbending
- uncommunicative
- uncompanionable
- unconcerned
- uncongenial
- uncurious
- undemonstrative
- unexpansive
- unforthcoming
- uninterested
- unneighborly
- unsociable
- unsocial
- uppity
Définition of non-gregarious
Origin :- 1660s, "living in flocks" (of animals), from Latin gregarius "pertaining to a flock; of the herd, of the common sort, common," from grex (genitive gregis) "flock, herd," reduplication of PIE root *ger- "to gather together, assemble" (cf. Greek ageirein "to assemble," agora "assembly;" Old Church Slavonic grusti "handful;" Lithuanian gurgulys "chaos, confusion," gurguole "crowd, mass"). Sense of "sociable" first recorded 1789. Related: Gregariously; gregariousness.
- As in retiring : adj shy, undemonstrative
- As in unsociable : adj unfriendly
- As in withdrawn : adj unsociable
- Roden knew it for a vulture, of the black and non-gregarious kind.
- Extract from : « A Veldt Official » by Bertram Mitford
- We called him Non-Gregarious all the way after that—Non for short.
- Extract from : « Crowds » by Gerald Stanley Lee
- Reflection is "wicked" for it leads to doubt, and doubt is non-gregarious behavior.
- Extract from : « The Behavior of Crowds » by Everett Dean Martin
- Also of non-gregarious species like the nightingale in which the males arrive in this country several days before the females.
- Extract from : « Birds in Town and Village » by W. H. Hudson
Antonyms for non-gregarious
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