Synonyms for outgoing
ˈaʊtˌgoʊ ɪŋ or, for 5 , -ˈgoʊ-out·go·ing

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1. outgoingnoun

   Synonyms:
   outgang

   Antonyms:
   incoming

2. outgoingnoun

   Comfortable in social settings and interactions; confident in dealing with people especially in meeting new people; gregarious.

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

   Synonyms:
   outgang

   Antonyms:
   incoming

3. outgoingadjective

   Going out, on its way out.

   Is there any outgoing post?

   Synonyms:
   outgang

   Antonyms:
   incoming

4. outgoingadjective

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

   Antonyms:
   incoming

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. outgoingadjective

   leaving a place or a position

   "an outgoing steamship"

   Synonyms:
   forthcoming, extroverted

   Antonyms:
   unsociable, future(a), inward, next, influent, succeeding(a), inpouring, designate(ip), incoming, elect(ip), inbound, in(a), inflowing

2. outgoingadjective

   retiring from a position or office

   "the outgoing president"

   Synonyms:
   forthcoming, extroverted

   Antonyms:
   inpouring, influent, inbound, elect(ip), succeeding(a), designate(ip), incoming, unsociable, next, future(a), inward, in(a), inflowing

3. extroverted, forthcoming, outgoingadjective

   at ease in talking to others

   Synonyms:
   forthcoming, extravert, extraverted, upcoming, extroverted, extravertive, extrovert, approaching, extrovertive, extrospective, coming(a)

   Antonyms:
   influent, unsociable, inbound, future(a), designate(ip), incoming, inflowing, elect(ip), next, inward, succeeding(a), inpouring, in(a)

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1. extraversion

   concerned with people and things, rather than ideas and concepts

   sales is a great career for extroverts because it takes someone who is outgoing.

   Submitted by rinat on August 26, 2019  

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1. List of paraphrases for "outgoing":

   outbound, retiring, leavers, outward, out-going, output, incumbent, exit, former, emerging, resigned, salient, outlet, egress, projection, departing, eol

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How to use outgoing in a sentence?

1. Bernard Iddings Bell:

   To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.

2. Walter Scott:

   He was outgoing -- loved everybody, (was) very known in the community and got along with everybody, all the family loves him, and his kids loved him.

3. Amanda Prince:

   She was crazy. Very athletic. Outgoing. She was just ... Jessica, she was happy all the time. She made everybody laugh.

4. Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath:

   Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise.

5. Krystle Campbell:

   Oh, she was a beautiful girl, she was very happy, outgoing, a hard worker.