Modifies a noun

• creature: The tense, easily aggravated captive makes way for a much more urbane, relaxed, almost gregarious, creature.

• bird: Outside the breeding season these are gregarious birds which are found in small flocks of up to 30 individuals.

• animal: They are gregarious animals living in groups of up to 24 animals.

• nature: I guess there have been a few where my gregarious nature has got the better of me.

• man: He is a very ambitious, gregarious man determined to use every device he can to tell the world about his business.

• person: People who know me know that I'm not the most gregarious person.

Modifying Another Word

• highly: The species is also known to be highly gregarious, associating with other small cetaceans in mixed species groups.

• usually: Tho usually gregarious, the only sighting in South Africa was a single in northern Kruger.

• very: According to Branch volunteers, he is a very gregarious fellow who just loves being the center of attention.

• extremely: Guillemots are extremely gregarious, colonial breeding is the norm and colonies can contain many tens of thousands of individuals.

• particularly: The birds are easiest to see during the October to March period when the young ones are particularly gregarious.

• fairly: I'm a well balanced man, and fairly gregarious too.

Used with adjective complement

• become: TOUCH is the major trigger of swarming, ie it is contact between crowded individuals that makes them become gregarious.