extroverts

1. 1
   nouncolloquial

   Plural of extrovert.

   Extroverts tend to recharge through social contact rather than solitude.

   The hiring panel worried that a room full of extroverts would talk over the analysts.

   Note

   A regular plural, formed with a plain -s, that shares its spelling with the verb meaning "turns outward". The noun belongs to informal usage: it names outgoing, sociable people, and careful prose often prefers the adjective, as in extroverted colleagues. Position separates the two forms. After "the" or as the subject of a sentence, it is the noun. Followed by an object, it is the verb.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of extrovert.

   Note

   Here the word is a transitive verb, so it needs an object: something turns or thrusts a thing outward. It agrees with a singular subject, as in "a mentor extroverts" or "an exercise extroverts." At root its meaning is directional, about pointing something outward. That keeps it distinct from the personality type named by the plural noun, even though the two share a spelling.

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