Qualities
Synonyms for retiring
Synonyms for retiring: past and unassuming. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for retiring
- pastadjective, in the sense "of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office"
- unassumingadjective, in the sense "not arrogant or presuming"
Each of these belongs to a different sense of retiring, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office
We honored the retiring president at the annual dinner.
The true synonym
past
Same sentence, swapped: We honored the past president at the annual dinner.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where retiring stands in the sentence above.
- unassuming
- reticent
- withdrawn
not arrogant or presuming
A shy retiring girl.
The true synonym
unassuming
Same sentence, swapped: A shy unassuming girl.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where retiring stands in the sentence above.
- preceding
- icy
- dying
Where retiring turns up in the game
retiring is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where retiring is the trap
- impassiveadjective, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is stolid, in the sense "having or revealing little emotion or sensibility", so retiring is there to be ruled out.
Play retiring
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so retiring reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other qualities words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
One vocabulary, two jobs
retiring is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.