introvert
I think it helps if you have an extrovert personality.
Thankfully, I'm fairly outgoing and extrovert, so the little asides in the playground didn't affect me.
Famously private, the artist often depicted flamboyant and extrovert characters, despite her own retiring temperament.
They were nice, but not what you call extroverted people.
He's very extroverted, he loves to make speeches and talk, and he's a great advocate of his work.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Energetic and lively
ablaze
alive
astir
barnstorming
be alive and well/kickingidiom
be as fresh as a daisyidiom
be full of beansidiom
boisterous
crackling
friskily
frisky
frolic
frolicsome
fury
go-getting
refreshed
refreshingly
rejuvenate
rejuvenation
rumbustious

Examples of extrovert

extrovert
For instance, the political effects of extroversion may differ for extroverts who are high rather than low in conscientiousness.
A reserved student will not necessarily respond to an extrovert companion.
The musical fabric is abstract but curiously involving, from the whispered opening to the more extrovert closing section.
Imaginative and thrilling, this is the composer's most extrovert creation and it gets the exhilarating performance it requires.
There is an overarching direction to the work which moves more and more into an inner spiritual world from its more concrete and extrovert beginning.
Interestingly, extroverts have relatively high levels of political discussion and opinionation, but relatively low levels of political knowledge.
After all, social interaction is at once the defining characteristic of the extrovert and an essential feature of many participatory political acts.
Thirdly, the optimistic 'can-do' quality of the extrovert previously has been linked to self-efficacy,48 and thus we expect extroverts to express high levels of internal political efficacy.
For example, the strong proclivity of extroverts towards political discussion and opinionation gives rise to the plausible hypothesis that other predictors of these phenomena may operate predominantly on introverts.
Márquez has an assured, extrovert voice, and reports folk forms in his blood since he learned the mariachi violin in childhood.
Additionally, conscientiousness is predicted to bring a heightened tendency to monitor the political arena, and extroverts are hypothesized to be prone towards both political opinionation and political discussion.
This group included a minority of students who were quite introverted and shy, and others who whilst much more extrovert were not necessarily always naturally cooperative.
Hence, high standards may imply an extrovert coping attitude, whereas low standards may indicate an introvert or self-protecting attitude towards the value or desirability of other ties.
Those who do the work are forgotten, while those who push their names forward the extroverts in the business—get the honours.
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