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retiring
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1 retiring
Not arrogant or presuming:
— A shy retiring girl.
synoniem: unassuming.
Roget 252:
depressed
etc.
v.;
alveolate†,
calathiform†,
cup-shaped,
dishing;
favaginous†,
faveolate†,
favose†;
scyphiform†,
scyphose†;
concave,
hollow,
stove in;
retiring;
retreating;
cavernous;
porous
etc.
(with holes)
260;
infundibul†,
infundibular†,
infundibuliform†;
funnel shaped,
bell shaped;
campaniform†,
capsular;
vaulted,
arched.
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Roget 438:
blue,
azure,
cerulean;
sky-blue,
sky-colored,
sky-dyed;
cerulescent†;
powder blue,
bluish;
atmospheric,
retiring;
cold.
2 retiring
Of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office:
— A retiring member of the board.
synoniemen: past, preceding.
3 retiring
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: 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unassured, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unexpansive, ungenial, unpretentious, unsociable, unsocial, waning, withdrawn ... meer laten zien.
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