retiring

retiring
    adj 1: not arrogant or presuming; "unassuming to a fault,
           skeptical about the value of his work"; "a shy retiring
           girl" [syn: {retiring}, {unassuming}]
    2: of a person who has held and relinquished a position or
       office; "a retiring member of the board" [syn: {past(a)},
       {preceding(a)}, {retiring(a)}]
    3: reluctant to draw attention to yourself [syn: {reticent},
       {self-effacing}, {retiring}]
    

Retire \Re*tire"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Retired}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Retiring}.] [F. retirer; pref. re- re- + tirer to draw.
   See {Tirade}.]
   1. To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.
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            He . . . retired himself, his wife, and children
            into a forest.                        --Sir P.
                                                  Sidney.
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            As when the sun is present all the year,
            And never doth retire his golden ray. --Sir J.
                                                  Davies.
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   2. To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take
      up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.
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   3. To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no
      longer qualified for active service; to place on the
      retired list; as, to retire a military or naval officer.
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Retiring \Re*tir"ing\, a.
   1. Reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring
      modesty; retiring manners.
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   2. Of or pertaining to retirement; causing retirement; suited
      to, or belonging to, retirement.
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   {Retiring board} (Mil.), a board of officers who consider and
      report upon the alleged incapacity of an officer for
      active service.

   {Retiring pension}, a pension granted to a public officer on
      his retirement from office or service.
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106 Moby Thesaurus words for "retiring":
      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