Stand-offish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  standoffish \stand*off"ish\, stand-offish \stand-off"ish\a.
     Shy or distant in manner; cold; aloof; reserved; not
     friendly.
  
     Syn: offish.
          [PJC] -- {stand*off"ish*ness}, n. -- {stand*off"ish*ly},


          adv.
          [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  standoffish
       adj : lacking cordiality; unfriendly; "a standoffish manner" [syn:
              {offish}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  60 Moby Thesaurus words for "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     withdrawn