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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
extroverted
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Smokers are measurably more extroverted than non-smokers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ First he distinguished the extroverted person from the introverted one - attitude types, as he called them.
▪ They may marry an extroverted intuitive-thinking type like themselves, or an introverted sensation-feeling type quite unlike themselves.
▪ They were two of a kind - extroverted and fun-loving.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
extroverted

extroverted \extroverted\ extrovertive \extrovertive\adj. 1. (Psychol.) directed outward; marked by an interest in other people or concerned primarily with external reality.

Syn: extrovert, extravert, extraverted, extravertive, extroversive, extraversive.

Wiktionary
extroverted

a. Possessing the characteristic property of an extrovert. outgoing, comfortable in social interactions.

WordNet
extroverted
  1. adj. not introspective; examining what is outside yourself [syn: extrospective] [ant: introspective]

  2. at ease in talking to others [syn: forthcoming, outgoing]

  3. characterized by extroversion [syn: extrovert, extravert, extraverted, extrovertive, extravertive]

Usage examples of "extroverted".

Good people, competent people, the most pleasant, personable, extroverted citizens of Georgia.

The topmen were all extroverted Yahoos, and I had not been polite to them lately.

For the northern combination, extroverted and stabile, was clearly what Hippocrates, Galen, Aristotle, Trimestigus, Wundt, and Jung would have called sanguine.

The other, Baer, slight and nervous, noisily and unconvincingly extroverted, laughed, nudged, and clapped shoulders, and maintained a continuous commentary on whatever was being said: "Fine, fine, right, sure, sure, wonderful, yes, yes, exactly, fine, good.

He was a wealthy, extroverted, dull boy from a good family of engineers and managers in Minneapolis.

As she had said to Wally Stratton, she was not an extroverted Southern belle.

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.

Applicants had to be extroverted enough to socialize, but introverted enough to have studied a discipline to the point of mastering it.

Her natural shy nature is the antithesis of the extroverted showbiz mode into which many American sprinters click after any victory.

Above all he seemed to have wholly laid aside or lost his youthful gaiety, his delight in communication, argument, talk, his active, winning, extroverted character.

But it does require wholehearted delight in extroverted activity, a bent for identifying oneself with outward goals, and of course also a certain swiftness and lack of scruple about the choice of ways to attain success.

Trying to imagine seven extroverted little Pifkos growing up together, all competing for attention…it hurt his ears.

For instance, two people may have the same gift of evangelism, but if one is introverted and the other is extroverted, that gift will be expressed in different ways.