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retiring

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Main Entry: retire
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: leave a place or responsibility

Synonyms:

absent oneself, decamp, deny oneself, depart, draw back, ebb, exit, fall back, get away, get off, give ground, give up work, give way, go, go away, go to bed, go to one's room, go to sleep, hand over, hit the sack, leave service, make vacant, part, pull back, pull out, recede, regress, relinquish, remove, repeal, rescind, resign, retreat, revoke, run along, rusticate, secede, seclude oneself, separate, sever connections, stop working, surrender, take off, turn in, withdraw, yield

Antonyms:

begin, enter, join
Main Entry: retiring
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: shy, undemonstrative

Synonyms:

backward, bashful, coy, demure, diffident, humble, meek, modest, nongregarious, not forward, quiet, rabbity, recessive, reclusive, reserved, restrained, reticent, self-effacing, shrinking, timid, timorous, unaffable, unassertive, unassuming, unexpansive, unsociable, withdrawing, withdrawn

Antonyms:

demonstrative, extroverted, outgoing, self-confident
Main Entry: abdicate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give up a right, position, or power

Synonyms:

abandon, abjure, abnegate, bag it, bail out, cede, demit, drop, forgo, give up, leave, leave high and dry, leave holding the bag, leave in the lurch, opt out, quit, quitclaim, relinquish, renounce, resign, retire, sell out, step down, surrender, vacate, waive, withdraw, yield

Antonyms:

assert, assume, challenge, claim, defend, defy, hold, maintain, remain, retain, treasure, usurp
Main Entry: antisocial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: nonparticipating; avoiding company

Synonyms:

alienated, ascetic, asocial, austere, cold, cynical, eremetic, hermitlike, introverted, misanthropic, reclusive, remote, reserved, retiring, solitary, standoffish, uncommunicative, unfriendly, unsociable, withdrawn
Notes: to be antisocial is to be hostile to or disruptive of the established social order, marked by or engaging in behavior that violates accepted mores; while being unsociable means one is not disposed to seek the company of others or is reserved

Antonyms:

friendly, fun-loving, participating, sociable
Main Entry: back
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: put in reverse direction

Synonyms:

backtrack, drive back, fall back, recede, regress, repel, repulse, retire, retract, retreat, reverse, turn tail, withdraw

Antonyms:

advance, go forward
Main Entry: backward
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bashful

Synonyms:

afraid, averse, demure, diffident, disinclined, hesitant, hesitating, humble, indisposed, late, loath, modest, reluctant, reserved, retiring, shy, sluggish, tardy, timid, uneager, unwilling, wavering

Antonyms:

aggressive, forward, precocious, unshy
Main Entry: bashful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: shy

Synonyms:

abashed, backward, blushful, blushing, chary, confused, constrained, coy, demure, diffident, embarrassed, humble, modest, nervous, overmodest, recoiling, reserved, reticent, retiring, self-conscious, self-effacing, shamefaced, sheepish, shrinking, silent, timid, timorous, unassertive, verecund

Antonyms:

confident, unabashed, unshy
Main Entry: clear out
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: leave, often quickly

Synonyms:

beat it, begone, decamp, depart, go, hightail, kite, make oneself scarce, remove oneself, retire, scram, skedaddle, split*, take a hike, take off, vamoose, withdraw

Antonyms:

arrive, rush in
Main Entry: cowardly
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fearful

Synonyms:

afraid, anxious, apprehensive, backward, base, caitiff, chicken-hearted, cowering, cowhearted, craven, dastardly, diffident, dismayed, fainthearted, frightened, gutless, having the willies, jittery, lacking courage, lily-livered, nervous, no guts, panicky, paper tiger, pigeonhearted, pusillanimous, recreant, retiring, running scared, scared, shrinking, shy, soft*, spineless, timid, timorous, weak, weak-kneed, worthless, yellow*, yellow-bellied

Antonyms:

bold, brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, unafraid, undaunted, unfearful
Main Entry: coy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very modest

Synonyms:

backward, bashful, blushing, coquettish, demure, diffident, evasive, flirtatious, humble, kittenish, overmodest, prudish, rabbity, reserved, retiring, self-effacing, shrinking, shy, skittish, timid, unassertive

Antonyms:

aggressive, forward, immodest, impudent, unshy
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