retiring
adjective
[ rɪˈtʌɪərɪŋ ]
• shy and fond of being on one's own.
• "a gentle, retiring person who avoided conflict"
Similar:
shy,
diffident,
bashful,
self-effacing,
shrinking,
unassuming,
unassertive,
reserved,
reticent,
quiet,
timid,
timorous,
nervous,
modest,
demure,
coy,
meek,
humble,
private,
secret,
secretive,
withdrawn,
reclusive,
media-shy,
unsociable,
seclusive,
eremitic,
eremitical,
hermitic,
anchoritic,
retire
verb
• leave one's job and cease to work, typically on reaching the normal age for leaving service.
• "he retired from the Navy in 1986"
Similar:
give up work,
stop working,
stop work,
reach retirement age,
• withdraw to or from a particular place.
• "she retired into the bathroom"
Similar:
go off,
withdraw,
go away,
go out,
exit,
make an exit,
take oneself off,
depart,
decamp,
adjourn,
leave for,
shut oneself away in,
absent oneself,
betake oneself,
repair,
• withdraw (a bill or note) from circulation or currency.
• pay off or cancel (a debt).
• "the debt is to be retired from state gaming-tax receipts"
Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘withdraw to a place of safety or seclusion’): from French retirer, from re- ‘back’ + tirer ‘draw’.
