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Aloof
| Aloof Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Aloof?
[adv] in an aloof manner; "the local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons readily enough"
[adj] remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Aloof: distant |
reserved
Related Terms | Find terms related to Aloof: above |
above all that |
abovestairs |
airward |
alienated |
aloft |
alone |
antisocial |
apart |
apathetic |
arrogant |
at a distance |
away |
backward |
bashful |
benumbed |
blah |
blank |
blase |
bored |
broken |
careless |
casual |
chilled |
chilly |
cold |
comatose |
companionless |
constrained |
cool |
desensitized |
detached |
disconnected |
discontinuous |
discreet |
discrete |
disdainful |
disinterested |
distant |
distantly |
dull |
exclusive |
expressionless |
forbidding |
formal |
friendless |
frigid |
frosty |
gapped |
guarded |
haughty |
heartless |
hebetudinous |
heedless |
high |
high up |
homeless |
hopeless |
icy |
impassive |
impersonal |
in a stupor |
in the air |
in the clouds |
inaccessible |
incoherent |
inconsistent |
incurious |
indifferent |
insouciant |
insular |
introverted |
isolated |
kithless |
languid |
Laodicean |
lethargic |
listless |
lone |
lonely |
lonesome |
mindless |
modest |
nonadherent |
nonadhesive |
nonchalant |
noncoherent |
noncohesive |
numb |
numbed |
off |
offish |
Olympian |
on high |
on stilts |
on the peak |
on tiptoe |
open |
over |
overhead |
passive |
phlegmatic |
pluckless |
private |
proud |
regardless |
remote |
remotely |
removed |
repressed |
reserved |
resigned |
restrained |
reticent |
retiring |
rootless |
seclusive |
separate |
separated |
shrinking |
single-handed |
skyward |
slack |
sluggish |
solitary |
solo |
soporific |
spiritless |
spunkless |
standoff |
standoffish |
stoic |
stolid |
straight up |
stupefied |
subdued |
supercilious |
supine |
suppressed |
tenuous |
tiptoe |
to the zenith |
torpid |
unabetted |
unaccompanied |
unadhesive |
unaffable |
unaided |
unapproachable |
unassisted |
unattended |
unbending |
uncaring |
uncoherent |
uncohesive |
uncompanionable |
unconcerned |
uncongenial |
unconnected |
undemonstrative |
unescorted |
unexpansive |
unfriendly |
ungenial |
uninquiring |
uninterested |
uninvolved |
unjoined |
unmindful |
unresponsive |
unseconded |
unsociable |
unsocial |
unsupported |
unsympathetic |
untenacious |
up |
upstairs |
upward |
upwards |
withdrawn
See Also |
Aloof In Webster's Dictionary
\A*loof"\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
Same as {Alewife}.
\A*loof"\, adv. [Pref. a- + loof, fr. D. loef luff, and so
meaning, as a nautical word, to the windward. See {Loof},
{Luff}.]
1. At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small
distance; apart; away.
Our palace stood aloof from streets. --Dryden.
2. 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.
\A*loof"\, prep.
Away from; clear from. [Obs.]
Rivetus . . . would fain work himself aloof these rocks
and quicksands. --Milton.
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