HOW TO PRONOUNCE
gregarious
/ɡɹəˈɡɛɹiəs/
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Give the second syllable the main beat.
Use four syllables and two hard g sounds. Keep the first vowel light, then let the two vowels after the stressed syllable lead gently into the final s.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“Her gregarious nature made introductions easy.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does gregarious mean?
adjective
- Who enjoys being in crowds and socializing.
- Of animals that travel in herds or packs.
- Growing in open clusters or colonies; not matted together.
More meanings (1)
adjective
- Pertaining to a flock or crowd.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɡɹəˈɡɛɹiəs/
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From their gregarious habits and individual abundance, the history of many hoofed animals is preserved with especial clearness.
Intensely cooperative and gregarious as man is, he is as intensely competitive, spurred on by his observations of the other fellow.
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Man too, if in his ape-like phase he resembled the other higher apes, is an animal becoming more gregarious and not less.
I may here just mention, that I found, near St. Fe Bajada, many large black spiders, with ruby-coloured marks on their backs, having gregarious habits.
In the autumn a few pairs of doves show slight gregarious tendencies, feeding amiably together in the grain fields and retiring to the same roost at sundown.