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retirement - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | retirement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | retreat |
| Synonyms: | ebb, evacuation, fallback, flight, pullback, pullout, withdrawal |
| Main Entry: | retirement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | seclusion |
| Synonyms: | aloneness, aloofness, beleaguerment, blockade, concealment, desolation, detachment, hiding, privacy, quarantine, reclusion, remoteness, retreat, separateness, separation, sequestration, shelter, solitude, withdrawal, privateness, reclusiveness, seclusiveness |
| Main Entry: | cancellation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | calling off; erasure |
| Synonyms: | abolition, abrogation, annulment, dissolution, elimination, recall, repeal, repudiation, retraction, reversal, revocation, undoing, abandoning, abandonment, abolishing, canceling, deletion, dissolving, invalidating, invalidation, nullification, overruling, quashing, recalling, retirement, retracting, reversing, revoking, withdrawing |
| Antonyms: | allowance, approval, arrangement, establishment, permission |
| Main Entry: | desertion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandonment |
| Synonyms: | abrogation, avoidance, betrayal, departure, derelict, dereliction, disaffection, divorce, escape, evasion, flight, rejection, renunciation, repudiation, resignation, retreat, secession, treachery, withdrawal, absconding, apostasy, backsliding, castoff, defecting, departing, disavowal, disavowing, elusion, falling away, falseness, forsaking, going back on, leaving, marooning, perfidy, recreancy, relinquishment, retirement, running out on, tergiversation, truancy |
| Antonyms: | aid, assistance, help, staying |
| Main Entry: | disappearance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vanishing |
| Synonyms: | departure, desertion, disintegration, dissipation, dissolution, eclipse, escape, evanescence, evaporation, exit, exodus, fading, flight, loss, melting, passing, recession, removal, wane, withdrawal, ceasing to exist, decline and fall, dematerialization, disappearing act, dispersal, ebbing, going, receding, retirement, wearing away |
| Antonyms: | appearance, arrival, coming, entrance |
| Main Entry: | exodus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leaving |
| Synonyms: | departure, egress, emigration, evacuation, exit, flight, journey, migration, retreat, withdrawal, egression, exiting, going out, offgoing, retirement |
| Antonyms: | arrival, entrance |
| Main Entry: | leisure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | free time and its activities |
| Synonyms: | chance, convenience, ease, freedom, holiday, idle hours, intermission, leave of absence, liberty, one's own sweet time, opportunity, pause, quiet, range, recess, recreation, relaxation, repose, requiescence, respite, rest, retirement, sabbatical, scope, spare moments, spare time, time, time off*, unemployment, vacant hour, vacation |
| Antonyms: | employment, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | privacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | solitude, secrecy |
| Synonyms: | aloofness, clandestineness, concealment, confidentiality, isolation, one's space, penetralia, privateness, quiet, retirement, retreat, seclusion, separateness, separation, sequestration, solitude |
| Antonyms: | publicity, publicness, sociableness |
| Main Entry: | seclusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | isolation |
| Synonyms: | blockade, concealment, desolation, detachment, hiding, privacy, quarantine, retreat, separation, shelter, solitude, withdrawal, aloneness, aloofness, beleaguerment, privateness, reclusion, reclusiveness, remoteness, retirement, seclusiveness, separateness, sequestration |
| Antonyms: | open, public |
| Main Entry: | secrecy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concealment |
| Synonyms: | confidence, dark, darkness, hiding, hush, isolation, mystery, privacy, reticence, seclusion, silence, solitude, stealth, suppression, clandestineness, confidentiality, covertness, furtiveness, retirement, secretiveness, secretness, surreptitiousness |
| Antonyms: | honesty, publicity, revelation, forthrightness, openness |
| Main Entry: | shelter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection, habitat |
| Synonyms: | apartment, asylum, cave, cover, covert, crib*, defense, den, dwelling, guard, guardian, harbor, haven, hermitage, hide, hideaway, hideout, home, house, housing, hut, joint*, lodging, pad*, pen, port, preserve, protector, rack, refuge, retreat, roof, roost*, safety, sanctuary, screen, security, shack, shade, shadow, shed, shield, tent, tower, turf, umbrella, co-op, condo, digs, harborage, hole in the wall, homeplate, quarterage, retirement, roof over head |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | solitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aloneness |
| Synonyms: | confinement, desert, detachment, emptiness, isolation, loneliness, privacy, quarantine, seclusion, silence, waste, wasteland, wilderness, withdrawal, loneness, lonesomeness, peace and quiet, reclusiveness, retirement, separateness, solitariness |
| Antonyms: | companionship, friendship, togetherness |
| Main Entry: | withdrawal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | removal; retraction |
| Synonyms: | alienation, departure, disclaimer, egress, exit, exodus, extraction, recall, repudiation, resignation, retreat, revocation, revulsion, secession, abandonment, abdication, abjuration, disavowal, disengagement, egression, exiting, marooning, palinode, recantation, relinquishment, rescission, retirement |
| Antonyms: | remainder, stay |
| Main Entry: | departure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leaving |
| Synonyms: | adieu, bow out*, desertion, egress, emigration, escape, evacuation, exit, exodus, farewell, flight, getaway*, goodbye*, migration, parting, passage, powder*, recession, removal, retreat, separation, stampede, start, takeoff, vacation, withdrawal, abandonment, congé, decampment, egression, embarkation, expatriation, going, going away, hegira, quitting, retirement, sailing, setting forth, setting out, taking leave, taking off, vanishing act, walkout, withdrawing |
| Antonyms: | arrival, coming, entrance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | resignation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relinquishment of responsibility |
| Synonyms: | departure, giving up, notice, renunciation, surrender, termination, withdrawal, abandonment, abdication, leaving, quitting, retirement, tendering, vacating |
| Antonyms: | agreement, taking on |
| Main Entry: | retreat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | departure |
| Synonyms: | ebb, evacuation, flight, withdrawal, retirement |
| Antonyms: | advance, arrival, coming |
| Main Entry: | end |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | completion, stop |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, adjournment, attainment, bottom line*, cease, cessation, close, closure, conclusion, consequence, consummation, culmination, curtain, denouement, desuetude, determination, discontinuance, execution, expiration, finale, finish, fulfillment, issue, last word*, outcome, payoff, perfection, realization, resolution, result, target, termination, upshot*, closing, desistance, expiry, finis, omega, retirement, sign-off, terminus, windup, wrap-up |
| Antonyms: | beginning, commencement, opening, start |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leaving |
| Synonyms: | adieu, death, demise, departure, egress, evacuation, exodus, expiration, farewell, goodbye, retreat, stampede, withdrawal, egression, expiry, going, leave-taking, offgoing, retirement |
| Antonyms: | arrival, coming, entrance, arriving, entering |
| Main Entry: | leave |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | holiday, time off |
| Synonyms: | adieu, departure, farewell, furlough, goodbye, leave of absence, liberty, parting, sabbatical, vacation, withdrawal, leave-taking, retirement |
| Notes: | let means to make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen, to allow; leave means to go away from a place |
| Antonyms: | workday |
| Main Entry: | retreat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place one goes for peace |
| Synonyms: | ark, asylum, cell, cloister, convent, cover, covert, defense, den, habitat, harbor, haunt, haven, hermitage, hideaway, ivory tower*, port, privacy, refuge, resort, safe house, sanctuary, seclusion, security, shelter, solitude, adytum, hiding place, retirement, safe place |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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