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Default Re: Is there a single word for `sheep-like' ?

The problem may be that you're looking for an equivalent to gregario - i.e. an adjective. Many people would call someone who was gregario 'a sheep' (not directly, as in 'You're a sheep', but indirectly, as in 'Don't you think you're being a bit of a sheep?)

Back to the original question: certainly not 'sheepish' - which means something else. There is the academic word 'ovine', but I've never seen it anywhere but a poem or a very dry text. I've never heard it, except in a jocular context among academics.

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