What's the difference between congenial and gregarious?

Congenial


Definition:

  • (a.) Partaking of the same nature; allied by natural characteristics; kindred; sympathetic.
  • (a.) Naturally adapted; suited to the disposition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I find it very congenial to live in the natural beauty of the place I have in Connecticut.
  • (2) Yes, Scottish leader Ruth Davidson was congenial and popular, but she was still, you know, a Tory.
  • (3) They are "very congenial, caring people," said Pieters-James.
  • (4) Additionally, it is suggested that the conditioning analysis of tolerance is congenial with a current view of habituation, and there may be a similar associative basis for the response decrement to both endogenous and exogenous iterative stimulation.
  • (5) Paget dramatized this clear distinction between the intrinsic properties of the cancer cell and the properties of the host when he expanded on the analogy between tumors and plants: "When a plant goes to seed, its seeds are carried in all directions; but they can only live and grow if they fall on congenial soil."
  • (6) The active transport system is congenial to fluorescine - Km = 4-10(-5) M, which renders even small amounts of this substance to be quickly removed from the milieu.
  • (7) The medium mountain ranges have a congenial climate in connection with its abundant forests.
  • (8) She said she was enjoying the kindness and congeniality of the crowd, an antidote, she said, to the negativity of the last 18 months.
  • (9) Physical and mental activity, good health, adequate means, well considered accommodation, an absorbing interest, congenial company and a philosophy which encompasses mortality are among the assets and attitudes which may promote successful retirement.
  • (10) Another showing for Sandra Bullock film Miss Congeniality on Channel Five had 1.2 million viewers and a 5% share between 9pm and 11.10pm.
  • (11) Face set with the look of determined congeniality, glass of orange juice in hand, Young (who generally cares so little about "promotion" that he didn't bother to include any songs from the-then new On the Beach in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 74 tour repertoire) braced himself to face the press, a few at a time in manager Elliot Roberts' Sunset Strip office, a fortnight before the release of Tonight's the Night .
  • (12) He said mixed classrooms were “far more congenial”, and he had “much preferred” being head of a school where children of both sexes were taught.
  • (13) The bloody creeks of the Niger delta may yet seem strangely congenial.
  • (14) The well-known autosomal-recessive inheritance of the disease was masked by a pseudodominant appearance, reflecting the striking frequency of congenial marriages.
  • (15) In person, in private, he displays a congenial persona not always evident at the dispatch box.
  • (16) In perfectly bucolic and culturally congenial surroundings, Hawthorne's imagination took flight and his pen dashed over the page, producing 21 stories, many of which, including "Rappaccini's Daughter", would be collected in 1846 as Mosses from an Old Manse.
  • (17) A very congenial silence for the CBI and other business lobby groups, who can urge ministers to cut benefits for the poor harder and faster, knowing their members are still getting their bungs.
  • (18) Even colleagues who disagree violently with his view of the world concede that Wolfowitz was far more congenial than the usual Washington apparatchik.
  • (19) These achievement-congenial conditions characterize entrepreneurial business and, among those occupations traditionally filled by women, teaching.
  • (20) On a personal level, Neuberger is giving up a comfortable berth at the law courts in the Strand, where he can choose to sit with the most congenial of his many fellow judges, in exchange for a much smaller 12-judge court in Westminster, physically isolated from the rest of the judiciary and where tensions are never far below the surface.

Gregarious


Definition:

  • (a.) Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rubens is not a solitary source of painterly genius, but a gregarious master who never hid his own quotations of earlier art.
  • (2) Cytological features are in agreement with the gregarious behaviour of cockroaches.
  • (3) Path analysis procedures were used to test a causal model that concerns possible antecedent conditions in relation to gregarious drinking patterns.
  • (4) He inherited his father's calculation and his mother's gregariousness and style.
  • (5) Backstage, Gabbana – the more gregarious of the two – will talk about fashion as fantasy, last season explaining his vision thus: “I have this life … I want to be happy.
  • (6) Famously, she lit a lamp in her window, as a welcoming sign to the vast Irish diaspora; deliberately – there was no lack of steel in her campaign, and she quickly showed a willingness to exploit the gaffes of often incompetent rivals – she made herself less private and austere, acquiring suits by Irish designers, trying, above all, to be more open and approachable, more, she told Byrne, like her own warm, gregarious mother.
  • (7) The imposing and gregarious Midlands-born banker tried and failed to buy Northern Rock before it was nationalised in February 2008 and then missed out on 318 Royal Bank of Scotland branches last year.
  • (8) Little wonder that tactless buyers at Asda rubber-stamped the rapidly withdrawn "Mental Patient" fancy dress costume when "mental" is routinely worn as a badge of gregarious honour.
  • (9) These patients also showed significant differences on the MCMI asocial, gregarious, and neurotic depression scales.
  • (10) Passive avoidance learning occupies a central role in accounts of disinhibited behavior, ranging from psychopaths' persistent criminality (Hare 1970) to extraverts' gregariousness (Gray, 1972).
  • (11) Bank swallows nest gregariously in colonies usually ranging from 10 to 300 nests.
  • (12) When we sit down for a more formal interview in his Manhattan hotel room a few hours later, Ross's earlier gregarious anecdotes are replaced by aphorisms that could come straight off one of those inspirational posters you see in recruitment consultant offices.
  • (13) Light-microscopically, pleomorphic tumor cells clustered gregariously and often formed alveolar structures.
  • (14) American Indians and Hispanos have a greater tendency to drink gregariously, to drink more, and to have more disruption in social role functioning.
  • (15) Females of two hamster species with contrasting degrees of gregariousness were tested for social influences on the timing of sexual maturation.
  • (16) He is a gregarious media grandee, who was born into the royal family of UK showbusiness.
  • (17) 2) Traditionals, healthy at both ages, were gregarious and nurturant.
  • (18) "Affectionately known as ­Corporal Hamer in the office, he was a gregarious figure, a wonderful friend who was hugely popular with his colleagues.
  • (19) When female dwarf hamsters (Phodopus sungorus campbelli), a gregarious species, were housed with an adult male at weaning, they began estrous cycles significantly earlier than when they were housed alone or with their family.
  • (20) Experiments were performed to evaluate the status of antibacterial defensive responses in M. sexta larvae parasitized by this gregarious endoparasitoid.