What are the antonyms for RETIRING?
- self-asserting, clubbable, extroverted, brash, dashing, gregarious, uninhibited, assertive, sociable, bold, outgoing, immodest, social, self-assertive, forceful, demonstrative, friendly, boon, unreserved, overbold, companionable, self-confident, convivial.
Synonyms for RETIRING
- recede,
- capsular,
- ill at ease,
- insular,
- ungregarious,
- Cowhearted,
- Seclusive,
- mousy,
- timid,
- restrained,
- self-controlled,
- segregation,
- tame,
- bowl-shaped,
- tight-lipped,
- timidity,
- separation,
- concave,
- Self-restrained,
- reverential,
- Cupped,
- pigeonhearted,
- ebbing,
- vaulted,
- disengage,
- withdrawn,
- faveolate,
- incommunicative,
- exiting,
- restraint,
- stuck up,
- innoxious,
- Verecundity,
- unobtrusiveness,
- blushful,
- publishing,
- frightened,
- ex-,
- keep to yourself,
- Sequestering,
- hostile,
- die,
- capitulation,
- Concaved,
- Chicken-hearted,
- demure,
- gutless,
- standoffish,
- cowardly,
- abandoned,
- step aside,
- declining,
- cleave,
- aggressive,
- preceding,
- retreat,
- taciturn,
- break out,
- put out,
- buttoned up,
- self-knowledge,
- frigid,
- unassuming,
- bear a grudge,
- unpretentious,
- cloistered,
- in check,
- inconspicuous,
- vanquished,
- departing,
- modest,
- uneager,
- bland,
- shamefaced,
- Anchoretic,
- disobliging,
- under wraps,
- Seceding,
- stay-at-home,
- pusillanimous,
- laid back,
- parting,
- sheepish,
- unobjectionable,
- seclusion,
- two's company, three's a crowd,
- proletarian,
- anesthetizing,
- unassertive,
- yellow-bellied,
- hermitlike,
- lowly,
- boatlike,
- condition,
- cold,
- endurance,
- rabbity,
- uncomfortable,
- issuing,
- unnoticeable,
- poker-faced,
- craven,
- impotent,
- unwilling,
- offish,
- modesty,
- commence,
- ineffectual,
- relinquishing,
- guarded,
- expire,
- Infundibular,
- unoffending,
- Reposing,
- standoff,
- hesitant,
- unostentatious,
- low-profile,
- eremitic,
- break,
- rogue,
- unextreme,
- formal,
- unsure,
- isolation,
- running scared,
- indrawn,
- depressed,
- shrinking,
- regressing,
- smothering,
- uncertain,
- having the willies,
- background,
- cup-shaped,
- tentative,
- retreating,
- harmless,
- constrained,
- lock away,
- loneliness,
- dished,
- Discommoding,
- weak,
- privacy,
- over-modest,
- calm and collected,
- withdraw,
- silent,
- uneffusive,
- Terminating,
- lily-livered,
- innocuous,
- relaxing,
- cavernous,
- nervous,
- deliver,
- reserved,
- private,
- desolation,
- Rejecting,
- insecure,
- blank,
- unambitious,
- controlled,
- Disclaiming,
- Incommoding,
- quiet,
- in charge,
- ex,
- unconfident,
- outbound,
- meek,
- Resorting,
- non-gregarious,
- Proroguing,
- monastic,
- anti-social,
- hollow,
- easy going,
- unapproachable,
- rigid,
- anchoritic,
- ungenial,
- blush,
- bashfulness,
- remote,
- Naviform,
- take off,
- incurved,
- give/hand in (your) notice,
- embarrassed,
- Resigning,
- ice-cold,
- unneighborly,
- Vacating,
- self-contained,
- lapsing,
- dispose,
- come,
- asocial,
- rendering,
- abashed,
- lonesome,
- Sequestrating,
- go away,
- uncongenial,
- frosty,
- go,
- misanthropic,
- retirement,
- Delivering,
- undemonstrative,
- evasive,
- secluse,
- aloof,
- uncurious,
- nonprovocative,
- ambitionless,
- antisocial,
- sequestered,
- mousey,
- Adjourning,
- dried up,
- low-key,
- humble,
- inoffensive,
- check out,
- funnel-shaped,
- feckless,
- chilly,
- deferential,
- unsociable,
- apprehensive,
- inferiority complex,
- shy,
- past,
- reticent,
- unpretending,
- Campaniform,
- hollowed,
- removed,
- inferior,
- lowborn,
- lone,
- retire,
- backward,
- patient,
- diminishing,
- porous,
- Bothering,
- distinguish,
- lost,
- inhospitable,
- impersonal,
- chary,
- terminate,
- pry out,
- expressionless,
- Recoiling,
- lonely,
- isolated,
- Retracting,
- Abandoning,
- arise,
- suppressed,
- dawdling,
- bowllike,
- uncommunicative,
- submissive,
- regrading,
- going to bed,
- dousing,
- emerge,
- troubling,
- easy-going,
- receding,
- diffidence,
- hermetic,
- draw back,
- unexpansive,
- vacate,
- renunciation,
- uneasy,
- non-committal,
- overmodest,
- privateness,
- menial,
- alveolate,
- unemphatic,
- releasing,
- modestly,
- discontinue,
- belong,
- blushing,
- fearful,
- hermitic,
- scaphoid,
- loath,
- anaesthetizing,
- arched,
- chicken-livered,
- Dishing,
- Decamping,
- chilled,
- Secluding,
- low key,
- spineless,
- Ceasing,
- cringing,
- lagging,
- navicular,
- retired,
- bedding,
- fail,
- affected,
- Flinching,
- cool,
- resign,
- Favaginous,
- in a tizzy,
- Unconspicuous,
- returning,
- unassured,
- corked up,
- unforthcoming,
- atmospheric,
- unwashed,
- former,
- Infundibuliform,
- Incurving,
- clammed up,
- emeritus,
- humility,
- become,
- resignation,
- solitary,
- discreet,
- dwindling,
- Pensioning,
- stand-down,
- unobtrusive,
- timorous,
- crook,
- self-conscious,
- mild,
- retiring,
- extend,
- Renouncing,
- take back,
- imp,
- chicken,
- Disengaging,
- saucer-shaped,
- unexcessive,
- going to sleep,
- softer,
- alight,
- detached,
- introverted,
- aseptic,
- amend,
- peaceable,
- leave,
- ineffective,
- yellow,
- scyphose,
- namby-pamby,
- sedate,
- friendless,
- confused,
- dignified,
- impassive,
- secluded,
- inhibited,
- under control,
- Abdicating,
- self-effacing,
- unpresuming,
- outward-bound,
- withdrawal,
- unaggressive,
- recidivating,
- on leash,
- solo,
- clear out,
- backing,
- hermit-like,
- Recessing,
- Unaffable,
- Resting,
- awkwardly,
- lounging,
- inept,
- reclusive,
- Superannuating,
- Removing,
- unfriendly,
- dying,
- weak-kneed,
- diffident,
- distant,
- Unamiable,
- recalcitrant,
- dismiss,
- self-doubting,
- get back,
- relapsing,
- forsaken,
- solitude,
- coy,
- accepting,
- sunken,
- fading,
- outcast,
- incompetent,
- supplicatory,
- withdrawing,
- knave,
- reluctant,
- Boat-shaped,
- recessive,
- rascal,
- Scyphiform,
- neutral,
- Surrendering,
- unsocial,
- napping,
- Discontinuing,
- deduct,
- prim,
- eremetic,
- get,
- shut off,
- sinking,
- leaving,
- wishy-washy,
- sunk,
- divide,
- Uncompanionable,
- incurvous,
- Cymbiform,
- scared,
- icy,
- scyphate,
- awkward,
- nongregarious,
- unresponsive,
- waning,
- inconveniencing,
- bow out,
- hand in your notice/resignation,
- quit,
- close-mouthed,
- on a leash,
- cast down,
- redeeming,
- Unboastful,
- Dismissing,
- strait-laced,
- Extending,
- irresolute,
- cavelike,
- inaccessible,
- averse,
- unemotional,
- not forward,
- secrecy,
- explode,
- depart,
- Recurring,
- forbidding,
- discombobulated,
- concealment,
- subdued,
- recalling,
- no guts,
- repressed,
- Favose,
- dominant,
- bashful,
- lacking courage,
- calathiform,
- put on airs,
- dish-shaped.
Usage Examples for RETIRING
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The " investigation" was over within an hour, the committee of one retiring for dinner to the adjoining residence of the Warden. - "Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist" by Alexander Berkman
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Sensitive, retiring Mrs. Marlow was not the one to push her claims or reveal her need. - "Taken Alive" by E. P. Roe
