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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

Intentionally isolated or unresponsive, often due to shyness or emotional pain.

e.g. The withdrawn child rarely participated in class discussions.

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Similar Words

Abashed

Adrift

Backward

Bashful

Coy

Demure

Diffident

Drawn

Forsworn

Impersonal

Indrawn

Introverted

Lone wolf

Modest

Nongregarious

Recessive

Reclusive

Removed

Retired

Retiring

Self-conscious

Self-doubting

Self-effacing

Sheepish

Shy

Unadventurous

Unattended

Unchaperoned

Unenterprising

Uninvolved

Unlinked

Unsaid

Unsocial

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Opposite Words

Accepted

Acknowledged

Adopted

Advanced

Avowed

Bearded

Bold

Boon

Borne

Bosom

Brash

Breasted

Buddy-buddy

Busy

Busyness

Chatty

Chummy

Close

Communicative

Companionable

Confirmed

Convivial

Dashing

Embedded

Especial

Extroverted

Familiar

Fixed

Forceful

Forward

Friendly

Gabby

Garrulous

Gregarious

Immodest

Ingrained

Inseparable

Intimate

Intrusive

Inward

Knit

Loquacious

Meddlesome

Mouthy

Near

Nosy

Obtrusive

Officious

Outgoing

Overbold

Presumptuous

Professed

Protrusive

Prying

Pushing

Pushy

Put

Set

Situated

Snoopy

Sociable

Social

Stated

Superserviceable

Talkative

Talky

Thick

Tight

Tight-knit

Uninhibited

Unreserved

Voluble

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Related Words

Abandoned

Abstracted

Alone

Aloof

Antisocial

Asocial

Awkward

Buttoned-up

Cold

Cold-eyed

Cool

Cut

Departed

Detached

Disengaged

Distant

Disturbed

Drawn

Dry

Embarrassed

Frosty

Gone

Left

Lone

Lonely

Lonesome

Pulled

Quit

Remote

Reserved

Self-conscious

Single

Solitary

Solo

Standoff

Standoffish

Unaccompanied

Unadventurous

Unassertive

Unbending

Uneasy

Unenterprising

Unsociable

Unsocial

Uptight

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