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Old 18-Sep-2006, 14:47
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Default Re: Is there a single word for `sheep-like' ?

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Originally Posted by mounty View Post
It seems that there is no single English word for the Spanish gregario, which describes one who unquestioningly and unthinkingly follows the herd. Can anyone think of one ?
Note that the Spanish word is not the same as the English gregarious.
I would say that "conformist" is a suitable word although the neologism "sheeple" is used on a number of forums that I frequent and google returns 603,000 hits for that term, the very first of which being:
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Originally Posted by google
Sheeplenet
Sheeple are people that follow blindly and never question their leaders.
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