introverted

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

introverted
    adj 1: given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences
           [syn: {introspective}, {introverted}, {self-examining}]
           [ant: {extrospective}, {extroverted}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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

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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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      undemonstrative, unexpansive, ungenial, upside-down, withdrawn,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