Antonyms for introverted


Grammar : Adj
Spell : noun, adjective in-truh-vurt; verb in-truh-vurt
Phonetic Transcription : noun, adjective ˈɪn trəˌvɜrt; verb ˌɪn trəˈvɜrt


Definition of introverted

Origin :
  • 1781, "directed inward," past participle adjective from introvert. Psychological sense is from 1915.
  • adj reserved
Example sentences :
  • I'd never talked with anyone from a Place that had been Introverted.
  • Extract from : « The Big Time » by Fritz Reuter Leiber
  • Introverted upon his own heart, it was keen, unsparing, insidiously subtle.
  • Extract from : « The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains » by Charles Egbert Craddock
  • She sank into a chair half laughing and yet with an introverted expressionrecueillement desprit, he thought to himself, bitterly.
  • Extract from : « Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 » by Various
  • Surely, if the Maintainer had been Introverted before he jumped on the bar, we'd all have noticed the flashing blue telltale.
  • Extract from : « The Big Time » by Fritz Reuter Leiber
  • The former correspond to my introverted and the latter to my extroverted type.
  • Extract from : « Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology » by C. G. Jung
  • She was set to the spinning-wheel; silent and introverted, she accomplished the tasks that were assigned her.
  • Extract from : « O. T. » by Hans Christian Andersen
  • He turned about short at the sound of the weak, pleading voice, but with no relaxation of his severe, introverted mood.
  • Extract from : « The Golden House » by Charles Dudley Warner
  • Its activity in externally directed thought is accompanied by an almost corresponding use of introverted reflection.
  • Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 17, No. 97, January, 1876 » by Various
  • But Johannes was in a restless, introverted mood, and could find no words for what distressed him.
  • Extract from : « The Quest » by Frederik van Eeden
  • But who shall cast an introverted eye Upon himself, that will not there descry A conscious life that shall, nor cannot die?
  • Extract from : « The Sylphs of the Season with Other Poems » by Washington Allston

Synonyms for introverted

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