Introverted

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  introverted \in"tro*vert`ed\ adj.
     1. examining one's own sensory and perceptual experiences.
        Contrasted with {extrospective}.
  
     Syn: introspective.
          [WordNet 1.5]


  
     2. marked by concern predominantly with oneself or one's own
        feelings. Contrasted with {extroverted}.
  
     Syn: introvert, introvertive.
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Introvert \In`tro*vert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Introverted}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Introverting}.] [Pref. intro- + L. vertere,
     versum, to turn.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. To turn or bend inward. "Introverted toes." --Cowper.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To look within; to introspect. --Lew Wallace.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  introverted
       adj : examining own sensory and perceptual experiences [syn: {introspective}]
             [ant: {extrospective}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  69 Moby Thesaurus words for "introverted":
     Olympian, aloof, arsy-varsy, ass over elbows, back-to-front,
     backward, backwards, bashful, blank, capsized, chiastic, chilled,
     chilly, cold, constrained, cool, detached, discreet, distant,
     everted, expressionless, forbidding, frigid, frosty, guarded,
     hyperbatic, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, ingoing,
     inner-directed, inside out, introversive, introvert, invaginated,
     inversed, inverted, modest, offish, outside in, palindromic,
     remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, resupinate,
     reticent, retiring, retroverted, reversed, shrinking, standoff,
     standoffish, subdued, subjective, suppressed, topsy-turvy,
     transposed, unaffable, unapproachable, uncongenial,
     undemonstrative, unexpansive, ungenial, upside-down, withdrawn,
     wrong side out