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standoffish
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, withdrawnFor further exploring for "standoffish" in Webster Dictionary Online