retiring

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: re=tir=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

retiring, a. 

•  Reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring modesty; retiring manners.  [1913 Webster]
•  Of or pertaining to retirement; causing retirement; suited to, or belonging to, retirement.  [1913 Webster]

Retiring board (Mil.), a board of officers who consider and report upon the alleged incapacity of an officer for active service. -- Retiring pension, a pension granted to a public officer on his retirement from office or service.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

retiring, adj. shy; fond of seclusion.

Derivative

retiringly adv.

THESAURUS

retiring

Olympian, aloof, aseptic, backward, bashful, blank, boat-shaped, boatlike, bowl-shaped, bowllike, cavelike, cavernous, chilled, chilly, cold, concave, concaved, constrained, cool, coy, craterlike, cup-shaped, cupped, cymbiform, declining, demure, detached, diffident, diminishing, discreet, dish-shaped, dished, dishing, dishlike, distant, dwindling, dying, ebbing, expressionless, fading, forbidding, frigid, frosty, funnel-breasted, funnel-chested, funnel-shaped, guarded, hollow, hollowed, humble, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, incurved, incurving, incurvous, infundibular, infundibuliform, introverted, meek, modest, navicular, naviform, offish, quiet, rabbity, receding, reclusive, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retreating, saucer-shaped, scaphoid, scyphate, self-effacing, shrinking, shy, sinking, spoonlike, standoff, standoffish, subdued, sunk, sunken, suppressed, timid, timorous, unaffable, unapproachable, unassertive, unassuming, unassured, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unexpansive, ungenial, unpretentious, unsociable, unsocial, waning, withdrawn

ROGET THESAURUS

retiring

Concavity

N concavity, depression, dip, hollow, hollowness, indentation, intaglio, cavity, dent, dint, dimple, follicle, pit, sinus, alveolus, lacuna, excavation, strip mine, trough, honeycomb, cup, basin, crater, punch bowl, cell, socket, valley, vale, dale, dell, dingle, combe, bottom, slade, strath, glade, grove, glen, cave, cavern, cove, grot, grotto, alcove, cul-de- sac, gully, arch, bay, excavator, sapper, miner, honeycomb (sponge), depressed, alveolate, calathiform, cup-shaped, dishing, favaginous, faveolate, favose, scyphiform, scyphose, concave, hollow, stove in, retiring, retreating, cavernous, porous, infundibul, infundibular, infundibuliform, funnel shaped, bell shaped, campaniform, capsular, vaulted, arched.

Blueness

N blueness, blue, garter-blue, watchet, ultramarine, smalt, cobalt, cyanogen, Prussian blue, syenite blue, bice, indigo, zaffer, lapis lazuli, sapphire, turquoise, indicolite, blueness, bluishness, bloom, blue, azure, cerulean, sky-blue, sky-colored, sky-dyed, cerulescent, powder blue, bluish, atmospheric, retiring, cold.