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1. Aloof \A*loof"\, n. (Zool.)
Same as {Alewife}.
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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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"
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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
EditKaynakça
1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
2. WordNet (r) 2.0
3. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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