Synonyms for Retiring:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • unassuming,
  • retiring.
  •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.
  •backward (adjective)
  • un eager,
  • dis-inclined,
  • in disposed,
  • un-eager,
  • dis inclined,
  • un-willing,
  • most uneager,
  • un willing,
  • more uneager,
  • in-disposed.
  •bashful (adjective)
  • 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.
  •cowardly (adjective)
  • having the willies,
  • softer,
  • yellow-bellied,
  • no guts,
  • weak-kneed,
  • running scared,
  • pigeonhearted,
  • lacking courage,
  • Cowhearted,
  • Chicken-hearted.
  •coy (adjective)
  • kittenish,
  • more rabbity,
  • most rabbity,
  • prudish.
  •demure (adjective)
  • de-mure,
  • un-assured,
  • strait laced,
  • de mure,
  • most unassured,
  • more unassured,
  • un assured.
  •diffident (adjective)
  • 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.
  •distant (adjective)
  • 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.
  •humble (adjective)
  • reverential,
  • supplicatory,
  • unambitious,
  • unpretentious.
  •inconspicuous (adjective)
  • unemphatic,
  • low-profile,
  • low key,
  • Unconspicuous.
  •inoffensive (adjective)
  • peaceable,
  • unoffending,
  • nonprovocative,
  • innoxious.
  •lowly (adjective)
  • unwashed,
  • cast down,
  • proletarian,
  • lowborn,
  • menial.
  •modest (adjective)
  • unpretending,
  • Unboastful,
  • unpresuming,
  • self-effacing.
  •outgoing (adjective)
  • 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.
  •recluse/reclusive (adjective)
  • more secluse,
  • most sequestered,
  • most secluse,
  • more reclusive,
  • more sequestered,
  • more seclusive,
  • most seclusive.
  •reclusive (adjective)
  • most hermit-like,
  • more hermit-like,
  • more hermit like,
  • most hermit like,
  • hermit like.
  •reserved (adjective)
  • close mouthed,
  • selfcontained,
  • self contained,
  • un responsive,
  • un-demonstrative,
  • un-responsive,
  • un demonstrative,
  • re-served,
  • non committal,
  • most eremitic,
  • re served,
  • more eremitic.
  •restrained (adjective)
  • corked up,
  • in charge,
  • in check,
  • unexcessive,
  • under wraps,
  • unextreme,
  • calm and collected,
  • on leash,
  • on a leash,
  • under control.
  •retired (adjective)
  • 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.
  •self-controlled (adjective)
  • selfcontrolled,
  • self controlled.
  •self-effacing (adjective)
  • selfeffacing,
  • self effacing.
  •self-restrained (adjective)
  • selfrestrained,
  • self restrained.
  •sheepish (adjective)
  • more chagrined,
  • un comfortable,
  • most mortified,
  • un-comfortable,
  • most chagrined,
  • more mortified.
  •shrinking (adjective)
  • most declining,
  • more declining.
  •shy (adjective)
  • introvert,
  • most unsocial,
  • most uneffusive,
  • un social,
  • un-effusive,
  • un-social,
  • un effusive,
  • most introvert,
  • more uneffusive,
  • more introvert,
  • more unsocial,
  • recessive.
  •shy, undemonstrative (adjective)
  • not forward.
  •timid (adjective)
  • 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.
  •unassuming (adjective)
  • un-assuming,
  • un assuming.
  •uncommunicative (adjective)
  • dried up,
  • clammed up,
  • buttoned up.
  •unconspicuous (adjective)
  • un-conspicuous,
  • most having,
  • more having,
  • un conspicuous,
  • Having.
  •unobtrusive (adjective)
  • more soft-pedaled,
  • more softpedaled,
  • most softpedaled,
  • un obtrusive,
  • more soft pedaled,
  • un-obtrusive,
  • most soft-pedaled,
  • most soft pedaled.
  •unsociable (adjective)
  • 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.
  •unwashed (adjective)
  • de classed,
  • un washed,
  • un-washed,
  • de-classed.
  •withdrawn (adjective)
  • more retreated,
  • in-different,
  • un-curious,
  • most retreated,
  • un curious,
  • in curious,
  • with-drawn,
  • more uncurious,
  • re treated,
  • in different,
  • un-interested,
  • dis-interested,
  • most uncurious,
  • in-curious,
  • dis interested,
  • re-treated,
  • un interested,
  • with drawn.

• n.

  •
  • two's company, three's a crowd,
  • solitary,
  • self-contained,
  • keep to yourself,
  • insular.
  •
  • restraint,
  • bow out,
  • step aside,
  • give/hand in (your) notice,
  • retire,
  • quit,
  • hand in your notice/resignation,
  • vacate,
  • stand-down,
  • resign,
  • leave.
  •humble (noun)
  • meek.
  •outgoing (noun)
  • outgoing.

• 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:

  •
  • cowardly,
  • stay-at-home,
  • inhibited,
  • aggressive,
  • inferiority complex,
  • hermetic,
  • lock away.
  •
  • dominant,
  • tentative,
  • modestly,
  • awkwardly,
  • insecure,
  • inferior,
  • mousy.
  •
  • uncertain,
  • lost.
  •
  • withdrawal,
  • withdraw,
  • awkward.
  •unobtrusive
  • background.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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:

• 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.