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offish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective offish has 1 sense
- offish(s = adj.all) standoffish - lacking cordiality; unfriendly; "a standoffish manner"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
offish, adj. colloq. inclined to be aloof.
Derivative
offishly adv. offishness n.
Etymology
OFF: cf. uppish
THESAURUS
offish
Olympian, above all that, ailing, aloof, backward, bashful, blank, chilled, chilly, cold, constrained, cool, detached, discreet, distant, donsie, exclusive, expressionless, forbidding, frigid, frosty, guarded, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, indisposed, insociable, introverted, low, mean, modest, off-color, poorly, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, seclusive, shrinking, sickly, solitary, standoff, standoffish, subdued, suppressed, unaffable, unapproachable, unbending, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unexpansive, ungenial, withdrawn
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