Aloof \A*loof"\, n. (Zool.)
Same as Alewife.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Aloof \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.
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Our palace stood aloof from streets. --Dryden.
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2. Without sympathy; unfavorably.
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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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Aloof \A*loof"\, prep.
Away from; clear from. [Obs.]
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Rivetus . . . would fain work himself aloof these rocks
and quicksands. --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
aloof
adj : remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a
distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers" [syn: distant,
upstage]
adv : in an aloof manner; "the local gentry and professional
classes had held aloof for the school had accepted
their sons readily enough"
WordNet (r) 2.0
181 Moby Thesaurus words for "aloof":
Laodicean, Olympian, 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, lethargic, listless, lone, lonely, lonesome,
mindless, modest, nonadherent, nonadhesive, nonchalant,
noncoherent, noncohesive, numb, numbed, off, offish, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
distant, upstage
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