social
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷéh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyós
Proto-Italic *sokjos
Latin sokios
Latin socius
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin sociālisbor.
Middle French socialbor.
English social
From Middle French social, from Latin sociālis (“of or belonging to a companion or companionship or association, social”), from socius (“a companion, fellow, partner, associate, ally”), from sequor (“follow”). Cognate with English seg (“man, companion, fellow”). More at seg.
Inflected forms:
form: more social
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most social
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Being extroverted or outgoing.
pos: adj
examples: James is a very social guy; he knows lots of people.
Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror, and could still be social with it—would they let me—since it is but well to be on friendly terms with all the inmates of the place one lodges in.
gloss: Of or relating to society.
pos: adj
examples: Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
Teresa feels uncomfortable in certain social situations.
Unemployment is a social problem.
gloss: Relating to social media or social networks.
pos: adj
tags: Internet
examples: social gaming
gloss: Relating to a nation's allies.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: the Social War
gloss: Cooperating or growing in groups.
pos: adj
examples: a social insect
Antonyms: antisocial
unsocial
asocial
Related words: sociality
societal
Derived words: anti-social
anti-social personality disorder
biosocial
box social
chronosocial
corporate social responsibility
cybersocial
dissocial
dissocialize
ecosocial
ethnosocial
eusocial
extrasocial
geosocial
heterosocial
homosocial
hypersocial
ice cream social
ice-cream social
intersocial
macrosocial
medicosocial
metasocial
microsocial
necktie social
nonsocial
parasocial
physicosocial
postsocialistic
presocial
prosocial
protosocial
pseudosocial
psychosocial
quasisocial
s-commerce
semisocial
shadow social
socdem
sociable
social action
social affairs minister
social alienation
social anthropologist
social anthropology
social anxiety
social anxiety disorder
social atom
social autopsy
social battery
social bookmarking
social butterfly
social call
social capital
social choice
social circle
social class
social climber
social climbing
social club
social cohesion
social collaboration
social collapse
social column
social columnist
social commentary
social commerce
social compact
social conditioning
social conflict paradigm
social conscience
social conservatism
social conservative
social construct
social constructionism
social constructionist
social constructivism
social constructivist
social contagion
social contract
social control
social coupon
social credit
social creditism
social cue
social Darwinism
social death
social deduction
social democracy
social democrat
social democratic
social disease
social distance
social distancing
social drinker
social dynamics
social eating
social ecology
social engineer
social engineering
social entrepreneur
social entrepreneurship
social envy
social event
social evil
social evolutionism
social fascism
social fascist
social function
social grace
social graph
social group
social handbag
social hangover
social history
social housing
social hygiene
social immunity
social imperialism
social infertility
social informatics
social insect
social insurance
social insurance number
socialise
social isolation
social issue
socialist
socialite
socialization
socialize
social jet lag
social justice
social justice warrior
social-justice warrior
social ladder
social landlord
social liberal
social liberalism
social life
social listening
social loafing
social lubricant
socially
social marginality
social media
social media intelligence
social medium
social mobility
social movement
social murder
socialness
social network
social networking
social nicety
social notworking
social occasion
social order
social orphan
social outcast
social partnership
social pattern
social philosophy
social phobia
social physics
social piranha
social policy
social power
socialpreneur
social profile
social programming
social project management
social promotion
social proof
social psychology
social realism
social recession
social recruiting
social responsibility
social roll
social safety net
socialscape
social science
social scientist
social season
social secretary
social security
social service
social services
social sharing
social skills
social smoker
social spam
social spending
social standing
social station
social status
social stigma
social studies
social supermarket
social tariff
social trading
social unit
social valence
social viewing
social wasp
social weaverbird
social welfare
social whale
social work
social worker
SOCMINT
subsocial
supersocial
technosocial
ultrasocial
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