extroverted

• (psychology): extraverted, extrovert

A variant spelling of extraverted. Popularized as a psychological term by Phyllis Blanchard's use of extrovert in her 1918 "Psycho-Analytic Study of August Comte", from extrovert +‎ -ed.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkstɹəvəːtɪd/, /ɛkstɹəʊˈvəːtɪd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkstɹəˌvəɹtɪd/, /ɛkstɹoʊˈvəɹtɪd/

extroverted

1. simple past and past participle of extrovert

extroverted (comparative more extroverted, superlative most extroverted)

1. Turned or thrust outwards, especially:
   • 1671, John Webster, Metallographa, page 197:

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

   1. (informal psychology) Of or characteristic of the personality of an extrovert: outgoing, sociable.

      She's very extroverted. She's always out meeting new people and looking for new experiences.

      • 2025 August 17, Sarah Avi, “Meet the “Otrovert,” A New Personality Type That May Describe You Better Than Anything”, in Free Jupiter‎^[1]:

        This subtle but important distinction means otroverts can blend into both introverted and extroverted environments without fully belonging to either.

   2. (medicine) Synonym of inside-out.

      ...an extroverted bladder...

Technical papers in psychology overwhelmingly prefer extraverted, although the spelling extroverted has become more common in general use.

• extrorse (botany)

• introverted

• “extrovert, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1894.
• Scott Barry Kaufman, "The Difference between ExtrAversion and ExtrOversion", Beautiful Minds, Scientific American, Springer Nature America, 2015.