Definition for Retiring:

• Reserved; not forward or obtrusive; on retiring.

Synonyms for Retiring:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • unassuming.
  •cowardly (adjective)
  • Chicken-hearted,
  • yellow-bellied.
  •humble (adjective)
  • unambitious,
  • unpretentious.
  •inconspicuous (adjective)
  • Unconspicuous.
  •inoffensive (adjective)
  • unoffending.
  •lowly (adjective)
  • unwashed.
  •modest (adjective)
  • unpresuming,
  • self-effacing,
  • unpretending.

• n.

  •
  • solitary,
  • self-contained.
  •
  • retire,
  • quit.

• v.

  •reposing (verb)
  • Resting,
  • relaxing,
  • napping,
  • Reposing,
  • lounging.
  •resigning (verb)
  • Renouncing,
  • relinquishing,
  • Vacating,
  • withdrawing,
  • Terminating,
  • Disclaiming,
  • Abdicating,
  • Ceasing,
  • accepting,
  • Rejecting,
  • Surrendering,
  • Discontinuing,
  • Resigning,
  • Abandoning.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • stay-at-home,
  • inhibited,
  • cowardly.
  •
  • mousy,
  • inferior,
  • dominant,
  • insecure,
  • awkwardly.
  •
  • lost.
  •
  • withdrawal,
  • withdraw,
  • awkward.
  •Other relevant words:
  • alight,
  • mousey,
  • discombobulated,
  • cavelike,
  • deferential,
  • timidity,
  • self-doubting,
  • retreat,
  • renunciation,
  • smothering,
  • regressing,
  • concealment,
  • reluctant,
  • knave,
  • Incommoding,
  • deliver,
  • draw back,
  • incurved,
  • dousing,
  • unfriendly,
  • humility,
  • poker-faced,
  • bland,
  • strait-laced,
  • cavernous,
  • embarrassed,
  • controlled,
  • returning,
  • dawdling,
  • unexpansive,
  • declining,
  • amend,
  • monastic,
  • desolation,
  • seclusion,
  • low-key,
  • departing,
  • hollowed,
  • discreet,
  • cool,
  • ungenial,
  • Superannuating,
  • preceding,
  • check out,
  • standoffish,
  • issuing,
  • blank,
  • clear out,
  • divide,
  • recede,
  • affected,
  • lonesome,
  • impassive,
  • private,
  • arise,
  • cold,
  • forbidding,
  • dispose,
  • cloistered,
  • loath,
  • extend,
  • loneliness,
  • leaving,
  • hesitant,
  • Infundibuliform,
  • outbound,
  • Resorting,
  • bedding,
  • dismiss,
  • scaphoid,
  • uncongenial,
  • shamefaced,
  • go away,
  • unaggressive,
  • regrading,
  • uneasy,
  • repressed,
  • retreating,
  • reticent,
  • subdued,
  • self-conscious,
  • scyphate,
  • Concaved,
  • become,
  • taciturn,
  • capitulation,
  • terminate,
  • Favaginous,
  • inaccessible,
  • hermitic,
  • inhospitable,
  • shrinking,
  • impotent,
  • lily-livered,
  • frigid,
  • redeeming,
  • dished,
  • break,
  • tight-lipped,
  • Pensioning,
  • ice-cold,
  • atmospheric,
  • cleave,
  • frightened,
  • backing,
  • fading,
  • Decamping,
  • icy,
  • blushing,
  • impersonal,
  • Campaniform,
  • lone,
  • secluded,
  • troubling,
  • incommunicative,
  • scared,
  • confused,
  • dignified,
  • averse,
  • indrawn,
  • ineffectual,
  • lagging,
  • Infundibular,
  • solo,
  • pusillanimous,
  • lonely,
  • chilled,
  • ambitionless,
  • capsular,
  • publishing,
  • Dishing,
  • nervous,
  • feckless,
  • standoff,
  • spineless,
  • wishy-washy,
  • exiting,
  • quiet,
  • segregation,
  • anchoritic,
  • recalcitrant,
  • retirement,
  • guarded,
  • crook,
  • rascal,
  • hostile,
  • break out,
  • modesty,
  • undemonstrative,
  • expressionless,
  • concave,
  • Naviform,
  • explode,
  • blush,
  • self-knowledge,
  • unapproachable,
  • Recurring,
  • evasive,
  • get,
  • Recessing,
  • receding,
  • unresponsive,
  • cringing,
  • removed,
  • Anchoretic,
  • pry out,
  • chicken-livered,
  • Removing,
  • die,
  • releasing,
  • Secluding,
  • isolated,
  • distinguish,
  • unconfident,
  • Unaffable,
  • Sequestrating,
  • Dismissing,
  • apprehensive,
  • unsure,
  • introverted,
  • solitude,
  • dying,
  • Cymbiform,
  • isolation,
  • Disengaging,
  • unnoticeable,
  • take off,
  • Delivering,
  • recidivating,
  • friendless,
  • silent,
  • chary,
  • belong,
  • Discommoding,
  • former,
  • uncomfortable,
  • detached,
  • Bothering,
  • sequestered,
  • ineffective,
  • recalling,
  • dish-shaped,
  • submissive,
  • craven,
  • Verecundity,
  • come,
  • forsaken,
  • remote,
  • ungregarious,
  • endurance,
  • ill at ease,
  • commence,
  • unemotional,
  • fearful,
  • going to sleep,
  • Proroguing,
  • Scyphiform,
  • go,
  • Sequestering,
  • sunken,
  • secrecy,
  • unforthcoming,
  • Adjourning,
  • alveolate,
  • patient,
  • expire,
  • mild,
  • going to bed,
  • abashed,
  • chicken,
  • unobtrusiveness,
  • Boat-shaped,
  • ebbing,
  • condition,
  • constrained,
  • harmless,
  • lapsing,
  • prim,
  • take back,
  • privateness,
  • Retracting,
  • inconveniencing,
  • timorous,
  • weak,
  • Recoiling,
  • sunk,
  • suppressed,
  • scyphose,
  • anesthetizing,
  • separation,
  • saucer-shaped,
  • incompetent,
  • irresolute,
  • unostentatious,
  • aloof,
  • yellow,
  • past,
  • waning,
  • Extending,
  • diminishing,
  • aseptic,
  • resignation,
  • bowl-shaped,
  • meek,
  • funnel-shaped,
  • inept,
  • disobliging,
  • vanquished,
  • Seceding,
  • deduct,
  • discontinue,
  • misanthropic,
  • neutral,
  • emerge,
  • calathiform,
  • put out,
  • bashfulness,
  • imp,
  • chilly,
  • in a tizzy,
  • shut off,
  • fail,
  • faveolate,
  • disengage,
  • unwilling,
  • sedate,
  • navicular,
  • relapsing,
  • privacy,
  • close-mouthed,
  • Cupped,
  • Flinching,
  • frosty,
  • vaulted,
  • hollow,
  • porous,
  • Unamiable,
  • abandoned,
  • diffidence,
  • depart,
  • tame,
  • parting,
  • arched,
  • Incurving,
  • sinking,
  • bear a grudge,
  • depressed,
  • offish,
  • innocuous,
  • unobjectionable,
  • retired,
  • gutless,
  • cup-shaped,
  • namby-pamby,
  • rogue,
  • outcast,
  • Favose,
  • formal,
  • get back,
  • rendering,
  • dwindling,
  • rigid.

Paraphrases for Retiring:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    retire.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    outgoing, old-age.
  • Proper noun, singular
    corporations, outgoing, departing, retreat.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    post-retirement, outgoing, retreat.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Resigning, withdrawing, relinquishing, Retrieving, Terminating, retreating, Quitting, Removing, resumption, regaining, Reclaiming, Divesting, exiting, Vacating, Canceling, Cancelling, recovering, Resuming, decommissioning, withholding, Revoking, Everything, Surrendering, sitting, arresting, Transferring, deriving, Detaching, halting, stopping, stripping, Lifting, Depriving, Graduating, Waiving, protruding, emerging, Disposing, breaking, Succumbing, yielding, moving, Crumbling, Separating, ceding, formerly, projecting, coming, dropping, assigning, drawing, slipping, Attaining, Escaping, Buckling, clearing, bust, running, pulling, going, outgoing, departing.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    retirement.
  • Proper noun, singular
    retirement, retirements, retires.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    retirement.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    retirement.

Antonyms for Retiring:

• adj.

  • shy, undemonstrative
    bold, friendly, self-confident, demonstrative.
  • Other antonyms:
    extroverted, dashing, gregarious, boon, uninhibited, clubbable, self-assertive, brash, sociable, outgoing, forceful, overbold, unreserved, self-asserting, social, convivial, assertive, companionable, immodest.

Homophones for Retiring:

• rotary wing, reordering, retraining, Rhaeto-Romanic, red herring, red-orange, returning, Rhaeto-Romance, return key, retrench.