What is another word for retiring?
699 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ɹɪtˈa͡ɪ͡əɹɪŋ], [ ɹɪtˈaɪəɹɪŋ], [ ɹ_ɪ_t_ˈaɪə_ɹ_ɪ_ŋ]Table of Contents
Similar words for retiring:- all (adjective)
- antisocial (adjective)
- backward (adjective)
- bashful (adjective)
- cowardly (adjective)
- coy (adjective)
- demure (adjective)
- diffident (adjective)
- distant (adjective)
- humble (adjective)
- inconspicuous (adjective)
- inoffensive (adjective)
- lowly (adjective)
- modest (adjective)
- outgoing (adjective)
- recluse/reclusive (adjective)
- reclusive (adjective)
- reserved (adjective)
- restrained (adjective)
- retired (adjective)
- self-controlled (adjective)
- self-effacing (adjective)
- self-restrained (adjective)
- sheepish (adjective)
- shrinking (adjective)
- shy (adjective)
- shy, undemonstrative (adjective)
- timid (adjective)
- unassuming (adjective)
- uncommunicative (adjective)
- unconspicuous (adjective)
- unobtrusive (adjective)
- unsociable (adjective)
- unwashed (adjective)
- withdrawn (adjective)
- humble (noun)
- outgoing (noun)
- reposing (verb)
- resigning (verb)
- other synonyms
- unobtrusive
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Retiring:
adj.
•all (adjective) •antisocial (adjective)- most asocial,
- more hermitlike,
- un friendly,
- most hermitlike,
- un friendlier,
- mis-anthropic,
- un-friendly,
- most eremetic,
- re-mote,
- more asocial,
- un-friendlier,
- mis anthropic,
- re tiring,
- more eremetic,
- anti social,
- re-tiring,
- un friendliest,
- un-friendliest.
- un eager,
- dis-inclined,
- in disposed,
- un-eager,
- dis inclined,
- un-willing,
- most uneager,
- un willing,
- more uneager,
- in-disposed.
- more verecund,
- Verecund,
- re coiling,
- more unassertive,
- more overmodest,
- un assertive,
- most overmodest,
- most verecund,
- over modest,
- most blushful,
- re-coiling,
- more nervous,
- un-assertive,
- most recoiling,
- more blushful,
- selfconscious,
- self-conscious,
- timorous,
- self conscious,
- most unassertive,
- more recoiling.
- having the willies,
- softer,
- yellow-bellied,
- no guts,
- weak-kneed,
- running scared,
- pigeonhearted,
- lacking courage,
- Cowhearted,
- Chicken-hearted.
- in-securer,
- in-secure,
- more blenching,
- dis trustful,
- un-poised,
- in secure,
- most unpoised,
- dis-trustful,
- un poised,
- more unpoised,
- in-securest,
- most blenching,
- un-sure,
- most flinching,
- un sure,
- in securest,
- Unpoised,
- in securer,
- more flinching.
- most insociable,
- on ice,
- un concerned,
- more uncompanionable,
- more insociable,
- up pity,
- most uncompanionable,
- un approachable,
- un companionable,
- most standoff,
- un-approachable,
- in-sociable,
- up-pity,
- put airs,
- in sociable,
- un-concerned,
- unapproachable,
- Insociable,
- un-companionable,
- stuckup,
- more standoff.
- most ex-,
- de parting,
- more outward bound,
- out goinger,
- outward bound,
- more outward-bound,
- outwardbound,
- out bound,
- out-goinger,
- most ex,
- de-parting,
- most outbound,
- most outwardbound,
- out-goingest,
- more outbound,
- out-going,
- most outward-bound,
- more outwardbound,
- out goingest,
- out-bound,
- more ex-,
- out going,
- more ex,
- most outward bound.
- more secluse,
- most sequestered,
- most secluse,
- more reclusive,
- more sequestered,
- more seclusive,
- most seclusive.
- close mouthed,
- selfcontained,
- self contained,
- un responsive,
- un-demonstrative,
- un-responsive,
- un demonstrative,
- re-served,
- non committal,
- most eremitic,
- re served,
- more eremitic.
- corked up,
- in charge,
- in check,
- unexcessive,
- under wraps,
- unextreme,
- calm and collected,
- on leash,
- on a leash,
- under control.
- most immured,
- dis charged,
- un frequented,
- dis-charged,
- re-tired,
- more immured,
- more cidevant,
- more emeritus,
- cidevant,
- most emeritus,
- un-frequented,
- most cidevant,
- re tired,
- in-active.
- introvert,
- most unsocial,
- most uneffusive,
- un social,
- un-effusive,
- un-social,
- un effusive,
- most introvert,
- more uneffusive,
- more introvert,
- more unsocial,
- recessive.
- more milquetoast,
- having cold feet,
- more daunted,
- more cowed,
- co wed,
- most bullied,
- un nerved,
- more unnerved,
- most unnerved,
- un-nerved,
- most cowed,
- most daunted,
- more browbeaten,
- most milquetoast,
- unnerved,
- co-wed,
- most badgered,
- more bullied,
- more trembling,
- most browbeaten,
- most trembling,
- more badgered.
- more soft-pedaled,
- more softpedaled,
- most softpedaled,
- un obtrusive,
- more soft pedaled,
- un-obtrusive,
- most soft-pedaled,
- most soft pedaled.
- more easy going,
- un bending,
- more nongregarious,
- un sociable,
- un-bending,
- more unforthcoming,
- non gregarious,
- in accessible,
- in-hospitable,
- un forthcoming,
- most brooding,
- un neighborly,
- un-forthcoming,
- un congenial,
- more unneighborly,
- in-accessible,
- un-sociable,
- most easy going,
- un-neighborly,
- more easy-going,
- un-congenial,
- most unneighborly,
- most unforthcoming,
- most nongregarious,
- in hospitable,
- more brooding.
n.
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- restraint,
- bow out,
- step aside,
- give/hand in (your) notice,
- retire,
- quit,
- hand in your notice/resignation,
- vacate,
- stand-down,
- resign,
- leave.
- meek.
v.
•reposing (verb) •resigning (verb)Other synonyms:
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- withdrawal,
- withdraw,
- awkward.
- alight,
- namby-pamby,
- discombobulated,
- boatlike,
- deferential,
- unaggressive,
- going to sleep,
- retreating,
- repressed,
- solo,
- relapsing,
- concealment,
- remote,
- knave,
- Pensioning,
- deliver,
- draw back,
- incurved,
- dousing,
- unobtrusiveness,
- humility,
- porous,
- bland,
- Proroguing,
- cavernous,
- embarrassed,
- controlled,
- rigid,
- dawdling,
- unobjectionable,
- declining,
- amend,
- mousey,
- desolation,
- secrecy,
- low-key,
- departing,
- hollowed,
- discreet,
- cool,
- inconveniencing,
- ungenial,
- prim,
- check out,
- submissive,
- issuing,
- blank,
- clear out,
- divide,
- receding,
- affected,
- lonesome,
- impassive,
- privateness,
- arise,
- cold,
- forbidding,
- dispose,
- cloistered,
- loath,
- extend,
- loneliness,
- leaving,
- hesitant,
- Recurring,
- outcast,
- Secluding,
- bedding,
- dismiss,
- scared,
- unexpansive,
- shut off,
- go away,
- uncongenial,
- bowllike,
- ungregarious,
- resignation,
- returning,
- retired,
- sunk,
- separation,
- incurvous,
- Superannuating,
- become,
- tame,
- capitulation,
- troubling,
- Incurving,
- inaccessible,
- hermitic,
- inhospitable,
- silent,
- impotent,
- lily-livered,
- frigid,
- regressing,
- dished,
- break,
- close-mouthed,
- Removing,
- ice-cold,
- atmospheric,
- cleave,
- frightened,
- backing,
- fading,
- Dishing,
- icy,
- blushing,
- impersonal,
- Disengaging,
- lone,
- seclusion,
- unconfident,
- incommunicative,
- secluded,
- confused,
- dignified,
- averse,
- indrawn,
- ineffectual,
- lagging,
- Recoiling,
- standoff,
- put out,
- lonely,
- chilled,
- ambitionless,
- capsular,
- pusillanimous,
- Favose,
- neutral,
- feckless,
- subdued,
- standoffish,
- Boat-shaped,
- tight-lipped,
- rascal,
- self-knowledge,
- anchoritic,
- recede,
- retreat,
- guarded,
- crook,
- recalcitrant,
- hostile,
- break out,
- monastic,
- unfriendly,
- expressionless,
- concave,
- self-doubting,
- explode,
- blush,
- sequestered,
- undemonstrative,
- Scyphiform,
- evasive,
- get,
- Resorting,
- redeeming,
- vaulted,
- cringing,
- rendering,
- Decamping,
- Unaffable,
- recalling,
- Seceding,
- die,
- reluctant,
- Verecundity,
- isolated,
- distinguish,
- unemotional,
- in a tizzy,
- strait-laced,
- Flinching,
- apprehensive,
- waning,
- introverted,
- spineless,
- dying,
- anesthetizing,
- isolation,
- Favaginous,
- unresponsive,
- Cymbiform,
- Dismissing,
- anaesthetizing,
- friendless,
- smothering,
- chary,
- belong,
- Extending,
- former,
- uneasy,
- detached,
- Discommoding,
- shrinking,
- ineffective,
- unforthcoming,
- dish-shaped,
- sunken,
- craven,
- Cupped,
- come,
- forsaken,
- removed,
- unostentatious,
- endurance,
- ill at ease,
- commence,
- unnoticeable,
- fearful,
- scyphate,
- chicken-livered,
- Sequestrating,
- go,
- take off,
- taciturn,
- sedate,
- calathiform,
- Campaniform,
- alveolate,
- poker-faced,
- expire,
- misanthropic,
- regrading,
- abashed,
- chicken,
- unwilling,
- Delivering,
- ebbing,
- condition,
- constrained,
- harmless,
- lapsing,
- privacy,
- terminate,
- publishing,
- Sequestering,
- saucer-shaped,
- uncomfortable,
- Anchoretic,
- Retracting,
- suppressed,
- take back,
- going to bed,
- funnel-shaped,
- shamefaced,
- scyphose,
- incompetent,
- irresolute,
- vanquished,
- aloof,
- Bothering,
- patient,
- Adjourning,
- Incommoding,
- diminishing,
- aseptic,
- reticent,
- bowl-shaped,
- mild,
- pry out,
- inept,
- disobliging,
- wishy-washy,
- Unamiable,
- deduct,
- discontinue,
- modesty,
- offish,
- emerge,
- bear a grudge,
- quiet,
- bashfulness,
- imp,
- chilly,
- recidivating,
- sinking,
- fail,
- faveolate,
- disengage,
- weak,
- segregation,
- nervous,
- releasing,
- private,
- Naviform,
- exiting,
- Infundibuliform,
- frosty,
- yellow,
- hollow,
- preceding,
- Concaved,
- abandoned,
- diffidence,
- depart,
- timidity,
- past,
- arched,
- Recessing,
- solitude,
- cavelike,
- depressed,
- outbound,
- innocuous,
- unsure,
- retirement,
- gutless,
- cup-shaped,
- navicular,
- scaphoid,
- parting,
- Infundibular,
- formal,
- get back,
- renunciation,
- dwindling,
- rogue.
Paraphrases for Retiring:
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Equivalence
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Proper noun, singular
retire.
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Proper noun, singular
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Independent
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Proper noun, singular
corporations, outgoing, departing, retreat.
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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.
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Proper noun, singular
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Other Related
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Adjective
retirement.
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Proper noun, singular
retirement, retirements, retires.
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Noun, singular or mass
retirement.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
retirement.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Retiring:
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adj.
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shy, undemonstrative
bold, friendly, self-confident, demonstrative.
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Other antonyms:
extroverted, dashing, gregarious, boon, uninhibited, clubbable, self-assertive, brash, sociable, outgoing, forceful, overbold, unreserved, self-asserting, social, convivial, assertive, companionable, immodest.
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shy, undemonstrative
Homophones for Retiring:
- rotary wing, reordering, retraining, Rhaeto-Romanic, red herring, red-orange, returning, Rhaeto-Romance, return key, retrench.