extrovert

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Pronunciation 1

• (British) IPA: /ˈɛkstɹəvəːt/
• (America) IPA: /ˈɛkstɹəˌvəɹt/

Noun

extrovert (plural extroverts)

1. (informal psychology) An extroverted person: one who is outgoing, sociable, and concerned with outer affairs.
   • 1918 April, Phyllis Blanchard, "A Psycho-Analytic Study of August Comte", American Journal of Psychology, p. 163:

     In order to understand the marked contract between Comte's mental attitude during his early years and that of his later life, we must keep in mind Jung's hypothesis of the two psychological types, the introvert and extrovert,—the thinking type and the feeling type.

Antonyms

• introvert

Related terms

• ambivert
• extroverted
• extroversion

Translations

• Russian: экстраве́рт

Adjective

extrovert

1. (informal psychology) Alternative form of extroverted#English|extroverted: outgoing.

Pronunciation 2

• (British) IPA: /ɛkstɹəʊˈvəːt/
• (America) IPA: /ɛkstɹoʊˈvəɹt/

Verb

extrovert (extroverts, present participle extroverting; past and past participle extroverted)

1. (transitive) To turn or thrust outwards.
   • 1671, John Webster, Metallographia, p. 197:

     The external and combustible Sulphur... is... protruded and extroverted.

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