retiring

adj

1. introverted, liking privacy and seclusion.

   “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.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of retire

   “Today is the party for our retiring co-workers.”

noun

1. retirement

   “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.”