How can I say of a person that he or she has an open or closed personality?


How can I say of a person that he or she has an open or closed personality? Is
there a standard adjective for that?




I think a good fit for "open" and "closed personality" are
[社交的](https://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=%e7%a4%be%e4%ba%a4%e7%9a%84) and
[閉鎖的](https://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=%e9%96%89%e9%8e%96%e7%9a%84). Informally,
you can also use オープン for 社交的.




doing a search for: japanese adjectives describing personality

I quickly found this site:
<http://maggiesensei.com/2015/10/30/%E6%80%A7%E6%A0%BC-seikaku-how-to-
describe-personality-in-japanese/>

It has a large list of positive and negative personality adjectives, helpfully
arranged in categories by similarities.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by open/closed, but the site gives several
words that could fit the idea of open:

★ 社交的 (な) = shakouteki (na) = outgoing

★ 明るい = akarui = cheerful, bright, happy

★ 元気 (な) = genki (na) = cheerful, energetic

★ 陽気 (な) = youki (na) = happy, vivacious, upbeat

★ 気さく(な) = kisaku = friendly

★ さっぱりしている = sappari shite iru = good sport

★ 活発 (な) = kappatsu (na) = active

★誠実 (な) = seijitsu (na) = sincere

★正直 (な) = shoujiki (na) = honest

★ 愛想がいい = aiso ga ii = friendly, affable

★ 話しやすい = hanashiyasui = to be easy to talk to

★ 打ち解けやすい = uchitokeyasui = to be easy to make friends with

★ 付き合いやすい = tsukiai yasui = to be easy to get along with

And as for "closed", you can take the last 4 in this list and use the opposite
of the last word (ie instead of "ii" use "warui" and instead of "yasui" use
"nikui") and the meaning would become the opposite.

