Crossword clues for aloof
aloof
- Not friendly
- Coolly detached
- Unlikely to get excited
- Hard to reach
- Standing apart
- Not easy to get close to
- Hard to approach
- Cool in manner
- Socially distant
- Not very friendly
- Not easily excitable
- On the cool side
- Like cold fish
- Lacking human warmth
- Hardly warm
- Hard to connect with
- Coolly distant
- Unlikely to take an interest
- Unlike an extrovert
- Unfriendly and distant
- U-turn from friendly
- Too cool
- Somewhat icy
- Socially disengaged
- Socially cool
- Socially chilly
- Remote, socially
- Rather remote
- Rather detached, socially
- Not very engaged
- Not particularly friendly
- Not overly friendly
- Intentionally apart
- How shy people may stand
- Far from engaged
- Emotionally unengaged
- Emotionally removed
- Emotionally cool
- Distant and cool
- Disengaged from all conversation
- Cooly detached
- Cold and unapproachable
- Cool and distant
- Coldly distant
- Distant in manner
- Standoffish and unemotional
- Reserved; cool
- Detached, in a way
- Removed
- Remote in manner
- Uninvolved
- Not engaged
- Hard to get to know
- Far from cordial
- Like a cold fish
- Unlikely to hug, say
- Not personally engaged
- Not engaging
- Not very affable
- Many
- Cool; detached
- Disinterested
- Intentionally apart or cool
- Indifferent
- Distant; reserved
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- Like a loner
- Snobbishly unfriendly
- A place to go with female that's pretty distant
- A pudding sent back cold
- Emotionally distant
- A pudding turned cold
- Needing a place to go, fellow's withdrawn
- Reserved area, bog north of Fens?
- Remote facilities - in a field, initially
- Haughty female pursuing Murphy in Mumbai?
- Distant admiration initially when trick is turned on its head
- Unsociable ladies perhaps lining absolutely nothing up
- Far from friendly
- Emotionally detached
- Above it all
- Hardly friendly
- Hard to get close to
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aloof \A*loof"\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Alewife.
Aloof \A*loof"\, adv. [Pref. a- + loof, fr. D. loef luff, and so meaning, as a nautical word, to the windward. See Loof, Luff.]
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At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.
Our palace stood aloof from streets.
--Dryden. -
Without sympathy; unfavorably.
To make the Bible as from the hand of God, and then to look at it aloof and with caution, is the worst of all impieties.
--I. Taylor.
Aloof \A*loof"\, prep. Away from; clear from. [Obs.]
Rivetus . . . would fain work himself aloof these rocks
and quicksands.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from a- (1) + Middle English loof "weather gage," also "windward direction," probably from Dutch loef (Middle Dutch lof) "the weather side of a ship." Originally a nautical order to keep the ship's head to the wind, thus to stay clear of a lee-shore or some other quarter; hence the figurative sense of "at a distance, apart" (1580s). Related: Aloofly; aloofness.
Wiktionary
a. reserved and remote; either physically or emotionally distant; standoffish. adv. At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away. prep. (context obsolete English) away from; clear of
WordNet
adv. in an aloof manner; "the local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons readily enough"
Usage examples of "aloof".
Union, or Confederation, under altered conditions, by the majority which should accede to them, with a recognition of the right of the recusant minority to withdraw, secede, or stand aloof.
The slim Senite appeared on the screen, no longer looking ageless and aloof, but shaken and tired.
Cassandra had remained aloof, mostly, yet she had insisted that he perform his duties as her protector, making sure he was always nearby.
The beadle, standing aloof, was inwardly angry at this individual who took the liberty of admiring the cathedral by himself.
There, under the disdainfully aloof gaze of eb Rise, Commander ha Bem was overseeing the distnbution of the liquid.
Melazzo and Morcone came to assist them, and it was then that Cabane observed that Terlizzi held aloof, as if filled with horror.
Charlie and Robert, were wont to go to Irville, and it was soon seen that they kept themselves aloof from the other callans in the clachan, and had a genteeler turn than the grulshy bairns of the cottars.
The Junta, however, being jealous of Cuesta, had given secret instructions to Venegas to keep aloof.
Set apart himself from the common world, he loved that daringness of character which also made itself, among common things, aloof and alone.
They gazed across the ravine dehumanized and aloof, as if they were the last gods on earth.
The baron and his friend did a little gaming and won a little money, but I held aloof from them to the best of my ability.
It seemed to Myron a little strange that his two intimates in his boyhood town should not have been his own family, nor Herbert Lambkin, nor any of the lively ruffians with whom he had once loafed at the livery-stable, but two familiar strangers whom, as the baby Effie May and the aloof Ted Dingle, he had seen without knowing them.
It made her feel a little elderly and aloof, and she guessed that it was Professor van Duyl who had instigated it.
She seemed to have no compunction about compressing the aloof distance she usually maintained with her staff, and stood facing him barely a foot away, her shoulders back and spine straight, almost in a military stance, but with the laughing gleam in her eye and the smooth lines of her cheek effacing any thoughts of the harshness of command.
Some of those, however, on whom Charles principally depended, now stood aloof, either fluctuating in their principles, astonished at the boldness of the undertaking, or startled at the remonstrances of their friends, who did not fail to represent, in aggravated colours, all the danger of embarking in such a desperate enterprise.