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extrovert
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Word definitions for extrovert in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1916, extravert (spelled with -o- after 1918, by influence of introvert ), from German Extravert , from extra "outside" (see extra- ) + Latin vertere "to turn" (see versus ). Used (with introvert ) in English by doctors and scientists in various literal ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an outgoing/extrovert personality (= liking to talk to people ) ▪ The job requires someone with an outgoing personality. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ He's a total extrovert who will talk to any stranger. ▪ Jan says ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
extrovert \extrovert\ n. (Psychol.) A person who is extroverted; a person who is marked by an interest in others or concerned primarily with external reality. Contrasted with introvert .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. outgoing; sociable; concerned with outer affairs alt. outgoing; sociable; concerned with outer affairs n. One who is outgoing, sociable and socially confident or concerned with outer affairs.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings [syn: extravert ] [ant: introvert ]
Usage examples of extrovert.
Captain Flume had entered his bed that night a buoyant extrovert and left it the next morning a brooding introvert, and Chief White Halfoat proudly regarded the new Captain Flume as his own creation.
Roman Catholic, middle class, extrovert, heterosexual, and I served twice before in criminal court.
Woods, a genial extrovert whose grasp of world politics and history was not striking, seems to those of us who knew him and liked him the last man in the American Embassy in Berlin likely to have come by such crucial intelligence.
Has a flair for factual reporting but fortunately an extrovert and without subtlety.
Early in the next afternoon they reached the brink of the Great South Sea and Don was transferred to a crazy wagon, a designation which applied to both boat and crewa flat, jet-propelled saucer fifteen feet across manned by two young extroverts who feared neither man nor mud.
There was a sudden opening in the line of honking extroverts and he piloted the car right through it.
She was late for her Extroverted Hour, but she wanted to get it right.
She was early for her Extroverted Hour but generally Moser or Alistair monitored the radio in case of emergency.
His testimony at the inquest sounded perfectly logical and so finely informed that it was hard to understand how such a prominent extroverted witness could possibly have escaped being quoted -- or at least mentioned-- by the dozens of newsmen, investigators and assorted tipsters with access to the Salazar story.
Good people, competent people, the most pleasant, personable, extroverted citizens of Georgia.
So we get all our motors free now, in exchange for being our extroverted selves.
The topmen were all extroverted Yahoos, and I had not been polite to them lately.
Trish, on the other hand, would have insisted he share every thought and force him out of his introspection into an extroverted therapy session.
La Tour was one of those extroverted visionaries, whose art faithfully reflects certain aspects of the outer world, but reflects them in a state of transfigurement, so that every meanest particular becomes intrinsically significant, a manifestation of the absolute.
Paul now felt certain Patina was a gregarious and self-confident extrovert, and he felt inferior to her on that basis.