Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

retiring

/ɹəˈtaɪ(ə)ɹɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English

Syllables: re-tir-ing
IPA: /ɹəˈtaɪ(ə)ɹɪŋ/

9

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

introverted, liking privacy and seclusion.

verb

present participle and gerund of retire

noun

Example Sentences

"I don't really know him well, since he's so shy and retiring."
"My uncle, as I can remember, was retiring in his disposition, scarcely ever visiting any one and not more frequently receiving any visitors."
"Lester was in the thick of social and commercial affairs; he walked in paths to which Jennie's retiring soul had never aspired."
"Today is the party for our retiring co-workers."
"One day of those his retirings ^([sic]), giving out that he was sick, his father Antigonus came on the sudden to visit him, and met a fair dainty youth coming out of his chamber."

Inflected Forms

retirings (plural)

Derived Forms

nonretiring retiringly retiringness

Phrases

retiring room

Synonyms

reticent self-effacing past preceding unassuming

Rhymes With

firing hiring inspiring acquiring aspiring wiring tiring admiring conspiring expiring uninspiring perspiring

Questions

How do you pronounce retiring?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɹəˈtaɪ(ə)ɹɪŋ/.
What does retiring mean?: introverted, liking privacy and seclusion.

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