Adjective: introvert
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more introvert |
| Superlative | most introvert |
Sample Sentences
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They were noticeably more introvert, schizoid and desurgent in temperament. [1934 July, British Journal of Psychology, page 26:]
Adjectives inflected like introvert
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From New Latin intrōvertere, from intro- (“within”) and vertere (“to turn”). Popularized as a psychological term by the German works of Carl Jung. By surface analysis, intro- + -vert.
Verbs referencing "introvert"
Dutch Adjectives
introvert, Finnish Adjectives
introvertti.