different between isolated vs aloof

English

From French isolé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?s?le?t?d/
• Hyphenation: iso?lat?ed

Adjective

isolated (comparative more isolated, superlative most isolated)

1. Placed or standing apart or alone; in isolation.
2. (chess, of a pawn) Such that no pawn of the same color is in an adjacent file.
3. (meteorology, of precipitation) affecting 10 percent to 20 percent of a forecast zone.
4. (medicine) Which has been extracted from the organism.

Derived terms

• isolate (via back-formation)

Translations

Verb

isolated

1. simple past tense and past participle of isolate

Anagrams

• altoside, diastole, diolates, elastoid, sodalite, solidate

English

Etymology

From Middle English loof (“weather gage, windward direction”), probably from Middle Dutch (Compare Dutch loef (“the weather side of a ship”)), originally a nautical order to keep the ship's head to the wind, thus to stay clear of a lee-shore or some other quarter, hence the figurative sense of "at a distance, apart".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lu?f/
• Rhymes: -u?f

Adverb

aloof (comparative more aloof, superlative most aloof)

1. At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.
2. Without sympathy; unfavorably.

Translations

Adjective

aloof (comparative more aloof, superlative most aloof)

1. Reserved and remote; either physically or emotionally distant; standoffish.

Derived terms

• aloofly
• aloofness

Translations

Preposition

aloof

1. (obsolete) Away from; clear of.

See also

• See also Thesaurus:arrogant

References

Anagrams

• loofa