| 单词 | social |
| 释义 | social (once / 41 pages) adjn If you are social, you like to be around people. A social butterfly is someone who is social or friendly with everyone, flitting from person to person, the way a butterfly might. The word social comes from the Latin socius meaning "friend." When you're being social, you're everyone's friend. Go to a social, or mixer, and you might make a lot of new friends. Stand in the corner pouting, however, and you're being anti-social. Humans are described as social beings — ones that tend to move or live in groups together, like penguins! WORD FAMILYsocial: antisocial, nonsocial, sociable, socialise, socialism, sociality, socialize, socially, socials, unsocial+/sociability: sociabilities/sociable: sociability, sociableness, sociables, sociably, unsociable/socialise: socialisation, socialised, socialiser, socialising/socialism: socialisms, socialist, socialistic/socialist: socialists/socialistic: socialistically/sociality: socialities/socialization: socializations/socialize: socialization, socialized, socializer, socializes, socializing/socializer: socializers/unsociable: unsociability, unsociableness, unsociably/unsocial: unsocially USAGE EXAMPLESThe project also seeks to correlate those outcomes with 123 social and economic factors such as government spending, proficiency in reading and rates of incarceration. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) The robot was a social experiment started by two Canadian professors. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) I am a clinical social worker in private practice, and I deal with a different client every hour. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) 1adj living together or enjoying life in communities or organized groups a human being is a social animal mature social behavior Syn|Ant friendly characteristic of or befitting a friend cultural, ethnic, ethnicaldenoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people gregariousinstinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others interpersonaloccurring among or involving several people multi-ethnic, multiethnicinvolving several ethnic groups gregarious(of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species sociableinclined to or conducive to companionship with others unsocial not seeking or given to association; being or living without companions aloneisolated from others antisocial, asocialhostile to or disruptive of normal standards of social behavior asocialgiven to avoiding association with others lone, lonely, solitarycharacterized by or preferring solitude recluse, reclusive, withdrawnwithdrawn from society; seeking solitude ungregarious(of animals) not gregarious unsociablenot inclined to society or companionship 2adj relating to human society and its members social institutions social legislation Syn societal 3adj tending to move or live together in groups or colonies of the same kind ants are social insects Syn gregarious (of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species 4adj relating to or belonging to or characteristic of high society made fun of her being so social and high-toned a social gossip colum 5adj composed of sociable people or formed for the purpose of sociability a purely social club the church has a large social hall a social director Syn sociable inclined to or conducive to companionship with others 6adj marked by friendly companionship with others a social cup of coffee Syn friendly characteristic of or befitting a friend 7n a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity Syn|Hyper mixer, sociable party a group of people gathered together for pleasure |
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