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| Main Entry: | retiring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy, undemonstrative |
| Synonyms: | backward, bashful, coy, demure, diffident, humble, meek, modest, quiet, recessive, reclusive, reserved, restrained, reticent, shrinking, timid, timorous, unassuming, unsociable, withdrawn, nongregarious, not forward, rabbity, self-effacing, unaffable, unassertive, unexpansive, withdrawing |
| Antonyms: | demonstrative, extroverted, outgoing, self-confident |
| 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: | antisocial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nonparticipating; avoiding company |
| Synonyms: | alienated, ascetic, austere, cold, cynical, introverted, misanthropic, reclusive, remote, reserved, retiring, solitary, standoffish, uncommunicative, unfriendly, unsociable, withdrawn, asocial, eremetic, hermitlike |
| 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, sociable, fun-loving, participating |
| Main Entry: | bashful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy |
| Synonyms: | abashed, backward, blushing, chary, confused, coy, demure, diffident, embarrassed, humble, modest, nervous, reserved, reticent, retiring, self-conscious, shamefaced, sheepish, shrinking, silent, timid, timorous, blushful, constrained, overmodest, recoiling, self-effacing, unassertive, verecund |
| Antonyms: | confident, unabashed, unshy |
| Main Entry: | cowardly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fearful |
| Synonyms: | afraid, anxious, apprehensive, backward, base, caitiff, craven, dastardly, diffident, fainthearted, frightened, gutless, jittery, lily-livered*, nervous, paper tiger*, pusillanimous, recreant, retiring, scared, shrinking, shy, soft*, spineless*, timid, timorous, weak, worthless, yellow*, chicken-hearted, cowering, cowhearted, dismayed, having the willies, lacking courage, no guts, panicky, pigeonhearted, running scared, weak-kneed, yellow-bellied |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, unafraid, undaunted, unfearful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | coy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very modest |
| Synonyms: | backward, bashful, blushing, demure, diffident, evasive, flirtatious, humble, kittenish, prudish, reserved, retiring, shrinking, shy, skittish, timid, coquettish, overmodest, rabbity, self-effacing, unassertive |
| Antonyms: | aggressive, forward, immodest, impudent, unshy |
| Main Entry: | demure |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reserved, affected |
| Synonyms: | backward, bashful, blushing, close, coy, decorous, diffident, earnest, humble, modest, nice, prim, prissy, proper, prudish, reticent, retiring, sedate, serious, shy, silent, skittish, sober, solemn, staid, strait-laced, timid, unassuming, unassertive, unassured |
| Antonyms: | aggressive, bold, extroverted, outgoing, shameless, strong |
| Main Entry: | diffident |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hesitant; unconfident |
| Synonyms: | backward, bashful, chary, coy, demure, distrustful, doubtful, dubious, humble, insecure, meek, modest, mousy, reluctant, reserved, retiring, self-conscious, sheepish, shrinking, shy, suspicious, timid, timorous, unassuming, unobtrusive, unsure, withdrawn, blenching, constrained, flinching, rabbity, self-effacing, unassertive, unassured, unpoised |
| Antonyms: | bold, confident |
| Main Entry: | inconspicuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hidden, unnoticeable |
| Synonyms: | camouflaged, concealed, dim, faint, hidden, indistinct, insignificant, low-key*, modest, ordinary, plain, quiet, retiring, secretive, shy, subtle, tenuous, unassuming, unobtrusive, low-profile, muted, soft-pedalled, unemphatic, unostentatious |
| Antonyms: | conspicuous, exposed, noticeable, open, unhidden |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inoffensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not obnoxious; harmless |
| Synonyms: | calm, clean, friendly, humble, innocent, innocuous, mild, neutral, peaceable, pleasant, quiet, retiring, safe, unobtrusive, innoxious, nonprovocative, unobjectionable, unoffending |
| Antonyms: | damaging, harmful, malicious, offensive, provocative |
| Main Entry: | lowly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inferior, plain |
| Synonyms: | average, base, common, commonplace, docile, dutiful, everyday, gentle, humble, ignoble, low, mean, meek, menial, mild, modest, mundane, obscure, obsequious, ordinary, plebeian, poor, prosaic, retiring, servile, simple, submissive, subordinate, unassuming, unpretentious, baseborn, cast down, lowborn, proletarian, reverential, withdrawing |
| Antonyms: | higher, lofty, noble, pretentious, superior |
| Main Entry: | recluse/reclusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hermitlike, unsociable |
| Synonyms: | antisocial, ascetic, cloistered, hermetic, isolated, misanthropic, monastic, reserved, retiring, secluded, solitary, standoffish, withdrawn, eremetic, secluse, seclusive, sequestered |
| Antonyms: | extroverted, friendly, sociable |
| Main Entry: | restrained |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | calm, quiet |
| Synonyms: | conservative, cool, discreet, laid-back*, mild, moderate, plain, reasonable, reticent, retiring, shrinking, soft, steady, subdued, tasteful, temperate, under wraps*, unobtrusive, uptight, withdrawn, bottled up, calm and collected, chilled, controlled, corked up, in charge, in check, inobtrusive, muted, on a leash, self-controlled, unaffable, undemonstrative, under control, unexcessive, unexpansive, unextreme |
| Antonyms: | assured, bold, confident, extroverted, outgoing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sheepish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy, embarrassed |
| Synonyms: | abashed, ashamed, diffident, docile, foolish, guilty, retiring, self-conscious, shamefaced, silly, tame, timid, timorous, uncomfortable, chagrined, mortified |
| Antonyms: | aggressive, bold, unashamed, unembarrassed |
| Main Entry: | timid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy |
| Synonyms: | afraid, ambivalent, apprehensive, bashful, capricious, cowardly, coy, demure, diffident, fainthearted, fearful, feeble, frightened, gentle, humble, intimidated, irresolute, modest, mousy, nervous, pusillanimous, retiring, shaky, shrinking, soft, spineless, spiritless, submissive, timid, timorous, vacillating, wavering, weak, yellow*, badgered, browbeaten, bullied, cowed, cowering, daunted, having cold feet, milquetoast, trembling, unassertive, unassured, unnerved |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, daring, extroverted, fearless |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unassuming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy |
| Synonyms: | backward, bashful, diffident, humble, lowly, meek, modest, mousy*, plain, prim, quiet, reserved, retiring, simple, unobtrusive, unpretentious, self-effacing, unambitious, unassertive, unostentatious, unpretending |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, confident, presumptuous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uncommunicative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy, silent |
| Synonyms: | aloof, close, curt, distant, evasive, guarded, hush-hush*, quiet, reserved, reticent, retiring, secretive, short, standoffish, taciturn, tight-lipped*, unapproachable, unresponsive, unsociable, buttoned up, clammed up, close-mouthed, dried up, offish, on the QT |
| Antonyms: | communicative, confident, extroverted, responsive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unobtrusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | keeping a low profile |
| Synonyms: | humble, inconspicuous, low-key, meek, modest, quiet, reserved, restrained, retiring, subdued, tasteful, unassuming, unpretentious, low-profile, self-effacing, soft-pedaled, unnoticeable, unostentatious |
| Antonyms: | flaunting, noticeable, obtrusive |
| Main Entry: | unsociable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfriendly |
| Synonyms: | aloof, antagonistic, cold, cool, distant, hostile, inaccessible, inhospitable, introverted, laid-back*, recessive, reclusive, reserved, retiring, secretive, sensitive, shy, standoffish*, stuck-up*, timid, unapproachable, unbending, uncommunicative, uncongenial, uppity*, withdrawn, brooding, easy-going, nongregarious, unforthcoming, unneighborly, unsocial |
| Antonyms: | approachable, friendly, nice, sociable, social |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reclusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsociable |
| Synonyms: | antisocial, ascetic, cloistered, hermetic, isolated, misanthropic, monastic, recluse, reserved, retiring, secluded, solitary, standoffish, withdrawn, eremitic, hermit-like, secluse, seclusive, sequestered |
| Antonyms: | gregarious, sociable |
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