outgoing

comparative more outgoing · superlative most outgoing

1. Extroverted: talkative, friendly, and social, especially with respect to meeting new people easily and comfortably; outgiving.

   Tom is very outgoing and enjoys meeting people; his brother, on the other hand, is painfully shy.

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   Quieter parents, who prefer a less stimulating lifestyle, may be baffled and challenged by these same outgoing kids.

   2003, Bernardo J. Carducci, Lisa Kaiser, The Shyness Breakthrough, page 124

   The outgoing former leader may have difficulty slowing down, being reflective, and studying and may be insensitive in a close relationship.

   1996, Stanley I. Greenspan, Jacqueline Salmon, The Challenging Child: Understanding, Raising, and Enjoying the Five “Difficult” Types of Children, page 308

   Think of it this way: Some people are more outgoing, while others are more reserved.

   2006, Direct Selling Women's Alliance, More Build It Big: 101 Insider Secrets from Top Direct Selling Experts, page 264

   Twelve-year-old Emma-Rose Paley has always felt very different from her bubbly, outgoing parents.

   2010, Ruth Ames, This Totally Bites!, back cover

2. not comparableGoing out, on its way out.

   Is there any outgoing post?

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   1917 August 27, President of the United States (Woodrow Wilson), Executive Order 2692, In the neighborhood of each defensive sea area the following entrances are designated for incoming and outgoing vessels: Atlantic. […] Designated entrance for outgoing vessels: The main entrance to the Panama Canal, between the breakwaters. Pacific. […] Designated entrance for outgoing vessels: Canal prism.

   There is struggle for food, accentuated by the fact that small items tend to be swept away by the outgoing tide or to sink down the slope to deep water.

   1922, John Arthur Thomson, The Outline of Science, Volume I, Part III

   By KRIYA, the outgoing life force is not wasted and abused in the senses, but constrained to reunite with subtler spinal energies.

   1946, Paramahansa Yogananda, chapter 26, in Autobiography of a Yogi

3. not comparableBeing replaced in office (while still in office but after election has determined that he/she will be replaced).

   The outgoing politician wasn't too disappointed he'd lost the election; he was tired of political infighting.

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   […] it appears […] that, by an arrangement between the outgoing and incoming marshal, the latter was to have the fees earned upon all writs in the hands of the deputies of the former at the date the office changed hands. It further appeared that the outgoing marshal made no claim to these fees.

   1893, Henry Billings Brown, Supreme Court of the United States, United States v. Fletcher: Opinion of the Court

   The outgoing Board of Governors shall designate for membership on the Board the ten members most advanced in the technology of atomic energy including the production of source materials, […]

   1957, United Nations, Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency

   As of this day too, the Seventh Development Cabinet is outgoing and to the ministers I express my thanks.

   1998, Suharto, Resignation Speech

   Republicans in the North Carolina House pushed through a measure restricting the powers of the incoming governor and other Democrats, overriding outgoing Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto.

   2024 December 11, Arit John, “North Carolina’s GOP-controlled legislature erodes incoming Democrats’ political powers”, in CNN

plural outgoings

1. The act of leaving or going out; exit, departure.

   the outgoings of the morning and evening

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 65:8

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   […] any present thirstings for God, or ardent outgoings of their souls after divine objects […]

   1749, Jonathan Edwards, An Account of the Life of the Late Rev. David Brainerd

   It was noted by them that kenned best that her cantrips were at their worst when the tides in the Sker Bay ebbed between the hours of twelve and one. At this season of the night the tides of mortality run lowest, and when the outgoing of these unco waters fell in with the setting of the current of life, then indeed was the hour for unholy revels.

   1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

   A tune for Hammavdil, for the outgoing of the Sabbath.

   1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 392

2. in pluralMoney that leaves one's possession; expenditure, outlay, expense.
3. The extreme limit; the place of ending.

   The outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea, at the south end of Jordan.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 18:19

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of outgo