retiring

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɹəˈtaɪ(ə)ɹɪŋ/
Rhymes: -aɪəɹɪŋ

Adjective

retiring

introverted, liking privacy and seclusion.
I don't really know him well, since he's so shy and retiring.
- 1911, Theodore Dreiser, chapter LX, in Jennie Gerhardt‎:
  Lester was in the thick of social and commercial affairs; he walked in paths to which Jennie's retiring soul had never aspired.

Derived terms

retiring room

Translations

preferring their own company, liking privacy

Bulgarian: затворен (bg) (zatvoren), необщителен (bg) (neobštitelen)
Greek: απομακρυσμένος (el) m (apomakrysménos)
Maori: hūnguengue, ngākau tōngā, hūnguengue

Verb

retiring

present participle of retire
Today is the party for our retiring co-workers.

Noun

retiring (plural retirings)

retirement
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], Apophthegmes New and Old. […], London: […] Hanna Barret, and Richard Whittaker, […], →OCLC:
  One day of those his retirings ^[sic], giving out that he was sick, his father Antigonus came on the sudden to visit him, and met a fair dainty youth coming out of his chamber.

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