retiring
retiring is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Of or pertaining to retirement; causing retirement; suited to, or belonging to, retirement. 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- and
- atmospheric
- azure
- background
- bashful
- bashfulness
- beat
- bice
- bloom
- blue
- blueness
- bluish
- blush
- blushing
- bushel
- candle
- cast
- ceremony
- cerulean
- cerulescent
- cobalt
- cold
- constrained
- constraint
- countenance
- coy
- cyanogen
- demure
- demureness
- diffidence
- diffident
- disposition
- distance
- draw
- drum
- eye
- face
- fame
- find
- give
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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