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standoffish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective standoffish has 1 sense
- standoffish(s = adj.all) offish - lacking cordiality; unfriendly; "a standoffish manner" Derived form noun standoffishness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
standoffish, a.
Shy or distant in manner; cold; aloof; reserved; not friendly. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
standoffish, adj. cold or distant in manner.
Derivative
standoffishly adv. standoffishness n.
THESAURUS
standoffish
Olympian, above all that, aloof, backward, bashful, blank, chilled, chilly, cold, constrained, cool, detached, discreet, distant, eremitic, exclusive, expressionless, forbidding, frigid, frosty, guarded, haughty, highfalutin, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, insociable, introverted, lordly, misanthropic, modest, offish, pompous, reclusive, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, seclusive, shrinking, snooty, solitary, standoff, subdued, suppressed, unaffable, unapproachable, uncompanionable, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unexpansive, unfriendly, ungenial, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn
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