🙅 Not sociable 🌱 Not clustered

ungregarious

9.9

Growing with space between plants and not in tight groups

adjective
/ʌnɡrɪˈɡɛəriəs/

Specialized

: disperso

Certain wildflowers are ungregarious and appear scattered rather than grouped tightly together.

Examples

Unlike its gregarious relatives, this species is typically ungregarious, spreading out over open ground.
Botanists observed that the plant's ungregarious habit allowed it to avoid competition for resources.
The ungregarious plants in the garden thrive in their own space.
Many ungregarious species prefer to grow individually.
Certain wildflowers are ungregarious and appear scattered rather than grouped tightly together.
Unlike its gregarious relatives, this species is typically ungregarious, spreading out over open ground.
Many ungregarious species prefer to grow individually.

Synonyms

straggly

vsungregarious

2 6.5

Having long, loose parts that look untidy, like hair or bushes

grows in loose groups with space between plants rather than an untidy spread

nongregarious

vsungregarious

9.9

Not living or growing in groups

grows in distant small groups rather than living alone

Antonyms

gregarious

7.2

Plants that grow in close groups or clusters

How Clustered

dense

42 2.8

clustered

4.1

ungregarious

Specialized

9.9

scattered

1 3.5

solitary

191 4.6

Surface Forms

ungregarious positive

Morphology

ungregarious = gregarious (transparent) = un + gregarious

Same productive negation 'un-' on 'gregarious'; applied to plants it denotes 'not forming close groups', a transparent but slightly specialized sense.

Etymology

Ungregarious is made of un- meaning 'not' and greg- meaning 'flock' or 'group', like in congregate ('to gather'). So an ungregarious plant does not grow in a tight group but spreads out or looks scattered.