different between standoffish vs taxonomy

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.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

Translations