Aloof

Definitions: Aloof

Aloof

Adjective

1. Remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile".

Adverb

1. In an aloof manner; "the local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons readily enough".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "aloof" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Aloof

Absence

Verb: be absent; Adjective: keep away, keep out of the way; play truant, absent oneself, stay away; keep aloof, hold aloof.

Avoidance

Eschew, keep from, let alone, have nothing to do with; keep aloof keep off, stand aloof, stand off, hold aloof, hold off; take no part in, have no hand in.

Caution

Keep out of harm's way, keep out of troubled waters; keep at a respectful distance, stand aloof; keep on the safe side, be on the safe side.

Distance

Remain at a distance; keep away, keep off, keep aloof, keep clear of, stand away, stand off, stand aloof, stand clear of, stay away, keep one's distance'.

Adverb: far off, far away; afar, afar off; off; away; a long way off, a great way off, a good way off; wide away, aloof; wide of, clear of; out of the way, out of reach; abroad, yonder, farther, further, beyond; outre mer, over the border, far and wide, "over the hills and far away "; from pole to pole; (over great space); to the uttermost parts, to the ends of the earth; out of hearing, nobody knows where, a perte de vue, out of the sphere of, wide of the mark; a far cry to.

Height

Adverb: on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead; airwind; upstairs, abovestairs; in the clouds; on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of; over head and ears; breast high.

Inaction

Verb: not do, not act, not attempt; be inactive; abstain from doing, do nothing, hold, spare; not stir, not move, not lift a finger, not lift a foot, not lift a peg; fold one's arms, fold one's hands; leave alone, let alone; let be, let pass, let things take their course, let it have its way, let well alone, let well enough alone; quieta non movere; stare super antiquas vias; rest and be thankful, live and let live; lie rest upon one's oars; laisser aller, faire; stand aloof; refrain; (avoid) keep oneself from doing; remit one's efforts, relax one's efforts; desist; (relinquish); stop; (cease); pause; (be quiet).

Incredulity

Verb: be incredulous; Adjective: distrust; (disbelieve); refuse to believe; shut one's eyes to, shut one's ears to; turn a deaf ear to; hold aloof, ignore, nullis jurare in verba magistri.

Incuriosity

Adjective: incurious, uninquisitive, indifferent; impassive; uninterested, detached, aloof.

Indifference

Aloof, unapproachable, remote; uncaring.

Refusal

Be deaf to; dismiss, turn a deaf ear to, turn one's back upon; set one's face against, discountenance, not hear of, have nothing to do with, wash one's hands of, stand aloof, forswear, set aside, cast behind one; not yield an inch; (obstinacy).

Seclusion Exclusion

Verb: be secluded, live secluded; Adjective: keep aloof, stand, hold oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the background; keep snug; shut oneself up; deny oneself, seclude oneself creep into a corner, rusticate, aller planter ses choux; retire, retire from the world; take the veil; abandon; sport one's oak.

Crosswords: Aloof

Maybe because you used to be aloof, or that you're really sarcastic, or that, you know, you joke around all the time. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

No man, aloof! Distant, zen (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)

You have to be aloof. (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

They were aloof, and at the same time possessive.

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Political Economy

Senegal

They traditionally remain aloof from politics and are firmly under civilian control. (references)

Worker Rights

Pakistan

While many unions remain aloof from politics, some are associated with political parties. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "aloof": aloof from ♦ hold aloof ♦ keep aloof ♦ keep aloof from ♦ keep aloof from arguments ♦ keeping aloof ♦ stand aloof. Additional references.

Ending with "aloof": germany-aloof, yet-more-aloof.

Albanian

i përmbajtur (composed, continent, controlled, cool-headed, decent, demure, discreet, even tempered, modest, passionless, restrained, sedate, self-collected, sober minded, staid, stand off, strange, temperate, unaffable, undemonstrative), i ftohtë (algid, bleak, bloodless, brumous, chilly, cold, cold-livered, cool, cool blooded, crimpy, distant, frigid, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, insensitive, offish, Parky, sexless, stilted, stolid, stony, winterly, wintry). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متحفظ (aloofness, careful, cautious, close, discreet, incommunicable, incommunicative, reserved, reticent, secretive, self contained, stand offish, taciturn, uncommunicative, wary), ‏بمعزل (apart). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сдържан (buttoned up, chary, composed, continent, coy, distant, modest, offish, remote, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, stand offish, taciturn, unaffable, uncommunicative, undemonstrative, undramatic, unemotional, unsociable, unsocial), резервиран (distant, inapproachable, incommunicative, offish, remote, reserved, reticent, retiring, self contained, stiff, undemonstrative), отделно (apart, extra, individually, particularly, separately, singly), настрана (afield, apart, aside, back, by, clear, edgewise, stage whisper), надменен (airy, arrogant, assuming, assumptive, contemptuous, cool, disdainful, haughty, high, high and mighty, imperious, lofty, offhand, offish, overbearing, overweening, prideful, proud, proud-stomached, remote, scornful, stand offish, stiff, stuck up, sublime, supercilious, superior, top-lofty, uppish), надалеч (afar, apart, clear, distantly, far). (various references)

Chinese 

� 动于衷 (unmoved). (various references)

Czech

stranou (apart, aside, by, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways), rezervovaný (booked, distant, guarded, low key, reserved, restrained, retiring, self contained, stand offish, standoffish, undemonstrative), opodál, odmìřený (crisp, curt, distant, stand offish, standoffish), lhostejnì (apathetically, indifferently). (various references)

Farsi 

کناره گیر, دور (Around, Away, Circuit, Distant, Meander, Orbit, Race, Remote, Wheel, Yonder). (various references)

Finnish

syrjässä. (various references)

French

distant. (various references)

German

unpersönlich (distant, impersonal, impersonally), spröde (austere, brittle, demure, obdurate, prim, recalcitrant, reserved, rigid, rough, stiff), hochmütig zurückhaltend. (various references)

Greek 

σε απόσταση (afar, afield), μακράν (abroad, afield, avaunt, away, by far), χωριστά (apart, asunder, individually, separately, severaly, singly). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ� �'�" (afar, aloof from, antagonizer, aside, at a distance, off), ל�"תב�"ל (be separated, stand aloof), �"תרחקות (aloofness, estrangement, going far, keeping aloof, keeping one's distance). (various references)

Hungarian

tartózkodó (chaste, coy, dry, guarded, irresponsive, keeping one's distance, offish, reserved, reticent, self contained, self-restrained, shy, standoff, stand-off, standoffish, unresponsive), távol (afar, afield, asunder, away, away from, distant, far, off, to be wide of the mark, to keep back, to keep clear of sg, to keep off, wide). (various references)

Indonesian

menyendiri (apart, be alone, be aloof, separated), bersendiri (apart, be alone, be aloof, separated). (various references)

Italian

alla larga, a distanza (remote), lontano (a long way, absent, afar, apart, away, back, distant, distantly, faint, far, far afield, far off, faraway, in the distance, off, remote, slight, way, wide), distante (dislodges, distant, far, far away, faraway, off, remote), distaccato (detached, remote). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

高踏 (highbrow, transcendent), つなぎ目 (a joint, a link, all-night Mah Jongg, altogether, at all, beyond doubt, certainly, complaining, entirely, extra-high-speed Touhoku-line shinkansen, feeling awkward, gleaming, going long way at steady pace, morose, nitpicking, pointed, sauce for dipping tempura, slippery, smooth, sound of walking, surely, tie-together point, to pitchforward, trudgingly). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

つ�"つ�" (morose, pointed), �"うとう (bald-headed, bow deeply, demotion, goodpitching, high class, high grade, highbrow, kowtow, larynx, oral, oral answer, political party, red light, steep price rise, sudden price jump, the imperial line, transcendent). (various references)

Korean 

멀리서. (various references)

Manx

quaagh (alien, foreign, ghostly, odd, peculiar, psychic, psychical, quaint, strange, supernatural, uncanny, weird), er lheh (aside, certain, distinctive, fancy, isolated, patented, private and confidential, respective; privately, separate, separately, special, specially), er cheu ny geayee. (various references)

Pig Latin

aloofay

Portuguese

afastado (away, devious, distant, ex service, far off, off, offscreen, out of the way, outlast, outlying, remote, removed, retired, secluded, secret, straggling, unfrequented, withdrawn), afastadamente, reservado (box, cagey, chilly, close, closet, confidential, demure, distant cousin, exclusive, freezing point, incommutable, long since, non committal, offish, particular, qualified, repulsive, reserved, reticent, retiring, secretive, self contained, separate, shy, special, stand off, stand offish, taciturn, unamenable, uncommunicative, undemonstrative), reservadamente (reservedly), indiferente (callous, chill, chilly, chippy, cool, devil may care, freezing, frigid, frosty, immaterial, impassion, incurious, indifferent, insensitive, laodicean, listless, lukewarm, negligibility, nonchalant, passive, pod, reckless, regardless, supine, unconcern, unconcerned, uninterested, unresponsive), desinteressado (candid, devil may care, disinvestment, indifferent, laodicean, listless, lukewarmness, nonchalant, non-partisan, passivity, unbiased, unconcern, unconcerned, uninterested, unselfish, unworldly), de longe, � distância (afar, away, remote). (various references)

Romanian

la distanţã (afar, back, distantly), departe (apart, away, far, far away, far off, far out, off, out, remotely). (various references)

Russian 

сторонящийся, отчужденный, надменный (arrogant, bloated aristocrat, bumptious, cavalier, haughty, high and mighty, hoity toity, lofty, proud, proud-spirited, proud-stomached, puff up, puffed up, snippy, stand-offish, supercilious, toplofty, toploty, upstage, wrapped in cellophane). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rezervisano, rezervisan (booked, reserved, taciturn), povučeno, povučen (coy, demure, recluse, remote, reticent, retiring, undemonstrative, unobtrusive, withdrawn), daleko (afar, away, far, far and away, off, remotely), dalek (alien, far, far flung, far off, faraway, farther, remote, removed). (various references)

Spanish

apartado (grading, head, headland, off, paragraph, remote, separated, sorting). (various references)

Swedish

på avstånd (at a distance). (various references)

Thai

แยกตัว (hold aloof, keep apart, seclude), พยายามอยู่ห่างจาก (keep aloof). (various references)

Turkish

ayrı (another, apart, aside, detachedly, discontinuous, discrete, dissimilar, distanced, distinct, divergent, divided, especial, hetero-, isolated, segregate, separate, unconnected), uzakta (afar, at a distance, away, clear, distant, far, far away, far off, in the distance, insofar, off, out), uzak (a long way off, afar, away, back, distant, far, far away, far off, faraway, insofar, off, out of the way, outlandish, outlying, recluse, remote, standoffish), soğuk (angular, apathetic, apathetical, bleak, calm, chill, chilling, chilly, cold, cool, cryo-, distant, freezing, frigid, frostiness, frosty, frozen, icily, inclement, inhospitable, marble, offish, Parky, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, remote, rigorous, saturnine, standoffish, starchy, stiff, stony, uncompanionable, unfriendly, unsympathetic, wintry), ilgisiz (apathetic, apathetical, careless, complacent, disinterested, does not apply, impertinent, incurious, indifferent, insensible, insouciant, irrelevant, listless, lukewarm, nonchalant, oblivious, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, standoffish, superior, unallied, unconcerned, unconnected, uninterested, unobliging, unrelated). (various references)

Ukranian 

удалині (afield, distantly), відчужено, віддалік (afar, away, back), осторонь (apart, aside, back, by, out of the way), на відстані (distantly), байдуже (all one, all the same, blankly, cold-bloodedly, indifferently, vacantly). (various references)

Welsh

yn cadw draw, pell (afar, distant, far, long, remote). (various references)

loef. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "aloof": aloofly, aloofness, aloofnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Aloof" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aboff, aflood, aleef, alio, alloc, allof, alloff, alloof, alo, alob, aloc, alod, alof, alofe, aloff, alog, Alogo, aloo, aloon, Alor, Alou, aloua, alouf, alov, alox, alu, aluco, aluo, anof, anoo, aof, aolu, aoo, aqloof, Aroff, awoof, azoo, Ekofo, galoof, halfofa, Kloof, Klukoff, lauf, loof, Malouf, Maluf, Ma'luf, ooof, Raloo, samloff, sloof, Ulloo. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: loofa.

-1 letter: foal, fool, loaf, loof.

-2 letters: loo, oaf.

-3 letters: al, fa, la, lo, of.

+1 letter: loofah, loofas.

+2 letters: aloofly, boffola, foveola, loofahs, offload.

+3 letters: aerofoil, boffolas, confocal, flatfoot, flavonol, floodway, floorage, foldboat, foolscap, football, footfall, footwall, foveolae, foveolar, foveolas, gonfalon, goofball, mooncalf, nonfocal, offloads, seafloor.

+4 letters: aerofoils, aloofness, colorfast, conformal, faldstool, falsehood, flatfoots, flavonoid, flavonols, floodgate, floodways, floorages, flotation, foldboats, foliation, foolhardy, foolscaps, footballs, footfalls, footfault, footwalls, fossorial, gonfalons, goofballs, leakproof, mycoflora, nonformal, offloaded, olfaction, olfactory, seafloors, splayfoot.

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