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outgoing (root: outgo)
CIDE DICTIONARY
outgoing, n.
- The act or the state of going out. [1913 Webster]"The outgoings of the morning and evening." [1913 Webster]
- That which goes out; outgo; outlay. [1913 Webster]
- The extreme limit; the place of ending. [1913 Webster]"The outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea, at the south end of Jordan." [1913 Webster]
outgoing, a.
- Going out; departing; leaving; as, the outgoing administration; an outgoing steamer. [1913 Webster]
- Being sent out; as, outgoing mail; outgoing packages. [PJC]
- Enjoying the company of others; pleasant and responsive to others; sociable; friendly; convivial; cordial; -- of people; as, an outgoing personality. Opposite of
reserved orcold . [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
outgoing, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 friendly; sociable; extrovert.
2 retiring from office.
3 going out or away.
--n.
1 (in pl.) expenditure.
2 the act or an instance of going out.
--adj.
1 friendly; sociable; extrovert.
2 retiring from office.
3 going out or away.
--n.
1 (in pl.) expenditure.
2 the act or an instance of going out.
THESAURUS
outgoing
accessible, affable, amenable, amiable, amicable, approachable, candid, communicative, congenial, conversable, cordial, demonstrative, departing, departure, easygoing, effluent, effused, effusive, egress, egression, emeritus, exit, exodus, expansive, extraction, extravasated, extroversive, extrovert, extroverted, familiar, former, forthcoming, frank, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, friendly, genial, going out, gossipy, informal, leaving, newsy, open, other-directed, outbound, outcome, outcoming, outflowing, outgo, outpouring, outspoken, outward-bound, past, retiring, self-revealing, self-revelatory, sociable, talkative, unconstrained, unhampered, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unsecretive, unshrinking, unsilent, unsuppressed, warm, withdrawingROGET THESAURUS
outgoing
Egress
N egress, exit, issue, emersion, emergence, outbreak, outburst, eruption, proruption, emanation, egression, evacuation, exudation, transudation, extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing, gush, outpour, outpouring, effluence, effusion, effluxion, drain, dribbling, defluxion, drainage, outcome, output, discharge, export, expatriation, emigration, remigration, debouch, debouche, emunctory, exodus, emigrant, outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate, pore, vomitory, outgate, sally port, way out, mouth, door, path, conduit, airpipe, effused, outgoing.Also see definition of "outgoing" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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