Retiring

Adjective

 * 1) Shy, introverted, liking privacy.
 * I don't really know him well, since he's so shy and retiring.
 * 1) About to retire.
 * Today is the party for our retiring co-workers.

Verb
retiring



Adverbs for Retiring
unusually; shyly; timidly; studiously; habitually; naturally; diffidently; unsocially; inhospitably; reticently; taciturnly; forbiddingly.

Thesaurus
Olympian, aloof, aseptic, backward, bashful, blank, boat-shaped, boatlike, bowl-shaped, bowllike, cavelike, cavernous, chilled, chilly, cold, concave, concaved, constrained, cool, coy, craterlike, cup-shaped, cupped, cymbiform, declining, demure, detached, diffident, diminishing, discreet, dish-shaped, dished, dishing, dishlike, distant, dwindling, dying, ebbing, expressionless, fading, forbidding, frigid, frosty, funnel-breasted, funnel-chested, funnel-shaped, guarded, hollow, hollowed, humble, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, incurved, incurving, incurvous, infundibular, infundibuliform, introverted, meek, modest, navicular, naviform, offish, quiet, rabbity, receding, reclusive, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retreating, saucer-shaped, scaphoid, scyphate, self-effacing, shrinking, shy, sinking, spoonlike, standoff, standoffish, subdued, sunk, sunken, suppressed, timid, timorous, unaffable, unapproachable, unassertive, unassuming, unassured, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unexpansive, ungenial, unpretentious, unsociable, unsocial, waning, withdrawn