PROTRUSIVE Antonyms

• lower than previously

• flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• a slow or gradual disappearance

• the act of becoming more distant

• (of a hairline e.g.) moving slowly back

• having a sunken area

• resembling an alcove

• having a sunken area

• withdrawn from society; seeking solitude

• tending to reserve or introspection

• an order for goods to be exported or imported

• the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line

• set in from the margin

• cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication

• make a depression into

• notch the edge of or make jagged

• bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant

• pull back or move away or backward

• retreat

• become faint or more distant

• tending to intrude (especially upon privacy)

• of rock material; forced while molten into cracks between layers of other rock

• thrusting inward