OUTGOING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outgoing mean? 

• OUTGOING (adjective)
  The adjective OUTGOING has 3 senses:

1. leaving a place or a position

2. retiring from a position or office

3. at ease in talking to others

  Familiarity information: OUTGOING used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTGOING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Leaving a place or a position

Context example:

an outgoing steamship

Similar:

outbound; outward; outward-bound (that is going out or leaving)

effluent; outflowing (that is flowing outward)

out (directed outward or serving to direct something outward)

past; preceding; retiring (of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office)

Also:

past (earlier than the present time; no longer current)

Attribute:

direction (the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves)

Antonym:

incoming (arriving at a place or position)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Retiring from a position or office

Context example:

the outgoing president

Antonym:

incoming (entering upon a position of office vacated by another)

Sense 3

Meaning:

At ease in talking to others

Synonyms:

extroverted; forthcoming; outgoing

Similar:

sociable (inclined to or conducive to companionship with others)

 Context examples 

The process by which the equilibrium temperature of the earth is increased due to presence of gases in the atmosphere that absorb outgoing longwave radiation.

(Greenhouse effect, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

Globally, rainfall isn't related just to the clouds that are available to make rain but also to Earth's "energy budget" — incoming energy from the sun compared to outgoing heat energy.

(NASA Data Suggest Future May Be Rainier Than Expected, NASA)

Any one of the gases found in the atmosphere (including CO[SUB]2[/SUB], H[SUB]2[/SUB]O, CH[SUB]4[/SUB]) that act to allow short wave radiation from the sun to reach the earth, but which absorbs outgoing long wave radiation from the earth surface.

(Greenhouse gases, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)