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standoffish

English

Alternative forms

  • stand-offish

Etymology

stand off +? -ish

Adjective

standoffish (comparative more standoffish, superlative most standoffish)

  1. Aloof; reserved; unsociable and unfriendly.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, episode 16,
      His initial impression was that he was a bit standoffish or not over effusive.
    • 1928, D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover, ch. 7,
      They were always a haughty family, standoffish in a way, as they've a right to be.

Synonyms

  • cold
  • distant

Derived terms

  • standoffishly
  • standoffishness

Translations

See also

  • standoff
  • stand off

References

  • “standoffish” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  • "standoffish" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
  • “standoffish”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
  • Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
  • Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987–1996.

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offish

English

Etymology

off +? -ish

Adjective

offish (comparative more offish, superlative most offish)

  1. (dated) aloof

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