Meaning and example
(of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species
Gregarious bird species
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.630 places gregarious in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 95.3% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 95.3%
cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
- Known by
- 95.4%
persist stubbornly
- Known by
- 95.4%
marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
- Known by
- 95.4%
incapable of being retracted or revoked
- Known by
- 95.2%
derived from experiment and observation rather than theory
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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