social – English adjective declension

Adjective: social

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparative	more social
Superlative	most social

Sample Sentences

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. [1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 1:]
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. [2012 January 26, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2012, page 70:]
Teresa feels uncomfortable in certain social situations.
Unemployment is a social problem.
social gaming
the Social War
a social insect

Adjectives inflected like social

priest-ridden, unreposed, evadible, dissentious, dissentient, unforesighted, egocentrical, unephemeral, unennobling, mensuralist, flocculent, unseductive, whoopsy, whooshy, surrogate, Nicodian, unrepaired, prismatoidal, renorenal, unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
4. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
5. Proto-Indo-European *sokʷéh₂
6. Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy
7. Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy
8. Proto-Indo-European *-yós
9. Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyós
10. Proto-Italic *sokjos
11. Latin sokios
12. Latin socius
13. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
14. Proto-Indo-European *-is
15. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
16. Proto-Italic *-ālis
17. Latin -ālis
18. Latin sociālisbor.
19. Middle French socialbor.
20. English social
21. 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. See: Latin Adjectives 'sociālis'.