What is another word for retiring?
755 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ɹɪtˈa͡ɪ͡əɹɪŋ], [ ɹɪtˈaɪəɹɪŋ], [ ɹ_ɪ_t_ˈaɪə_ɹ_ɪ_ŋ]
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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)
- other relevant words (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- withdrawn (adjective)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)
- other relevant words (verb)
- reposing (verb)
- resigning (verb)
- other synonyms
- unobtrusive
- other relevant words (noun)
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.
- distant,
- outward-bound,
- non-gregarious,
- uneffusive,
- laid back,
- hermitlike,
- modest,
- demure,
- stuck up,
- Uncompanionable,
- easy-going,
- eremetic,
- unobtrusive,
- secluse,
- overmodest,
- eremitic,
- unsocial,
- inconspicuous,
- bashful,
- shy,
- ex,
- antisocial,
- sheepish,
- withdrawn,
- self-controlled,
- reserved,
- Seclusive,
- timid,
- unneighborly,
- Self-restrained,
- over-modest,
- non-committal,
- ex-,
- anti-social,
- nongregarious,
- uncurious,
- rabbity,
- unsociable,
- uncommunicative,
- restrained,
- diffident,
- put on airs,
- hermit-like,
- inoffensive,
- easy going,
- lowly,
- backward,
- unassured,
- coy,
- reclusive,
- emeritus,
- blushful,
- uneager,
- unassertive,
- asocial.
- 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.
• Other relevant words: (verb) • 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.
How to use "Retiring" in context?
Seeing the Retirement Calculator come up on our screens for the first time can be a bit overwhelming. After all, it tells us that we will likely live to the ripe old age of 102!
But what does that mean for us, as people approaching retirement? Particularly if we haven't actually started saving yet?
First of all, don't panic! retiring at any age is a big decision, but it's not as bad as it might seem. And there are a number of things you can do to make the process easier.
1. Make a plan.
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
departing, outgoing, retreat, corporations.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
arresting, assigning, breaking, bust, ceding, clearing, coming, departing, deriving, drawing, dropping, emerging, formerly, going, halting, moving, outgoing, projecting, protruding, pulling, recovering, regaining, relinquishing, resumption, retreating, running, sitting, slipping, stopping, stripping, withdrawing, withholding, yielding, Attaining, Buckling, Canceling, Cancelling, Depriving, Detaching, Disposing, Divesting, Escaping, Everything, Graduating, Lifting, Quitting, Reclaiming, Removing, Resigning, Resuming, Retrieving, Revoking, Separating, Terminating, Transferring, Vacating, Waiving, Crumbling, Succumbing, Surrendering, exiting, decommissioning.
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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, retires, retirements.
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Noun, singular or mass
retirement.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
retirement.
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Adjective
Homophones for Retiring:
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