Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Aloof or reserved.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as stand-off.
Wiktionary
- adj. Aloof; reserved; unsociable and unfriendly.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Shy or distant in manner; cold; aloof; reserved; not friendly.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lacking cordiality; unfriendly.
Examples
“He may seem a bit standoffish, which is likely just his natural reserved personality.”
“The characterization of private enterprise as 'standoffish' by a former government insider, whose focus was not cyber, highlights the heart of the problem.”
The Huffington Post: Art Coviello: Government's Earlier Failure to Act Clouds the Facts
“I have not been very reliable with meme's in recent months....almost to the point of being rude and 'standoffish'.”
“I had met her once briefly (like literally a 3 minute conversation – I only remembered her because the piercing blue eyes/dark hair combo is pretty unusual) at a bar on the waterfront and she struck me as kind of standoffish and stuck up.”
“But it was not until August 6, when Britain's International Television News (ITN) broadcast the first television pictures from the camps, that President Bush found himself forced to defend his "standoffish" policy toward the former Yugoslavia.”
““And I’m not going to be like ‘I don’t like Kate… But, I mean, she’s pretty, you know, standoffish, which is kind of weird.””
Shannen Doherty Mark Ballas First Couple Voted Off “Dancing With The Stars”
“Price, 61, said if people think he's "standoffish" or "snobby," that's not his intent.”
“She's so "standoffish" in fact that the show staff needs to contact her through her personal security.”
“Europeans and they all seem to pleasent enough if a bit standoffish which is understandable.”
“Yust said the clerk who assisted her at the DMV on Oct. 21 was "standoffish" but not rude.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘standoffish’.
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Many Stands
grandstand, Custer's last stand, bandstand, witness stand, upstand, bedstand, Rostand, handstand, hardstand, headstand, newsstand, stillstand and 95 more...
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Introverted
Quiet, shy, Introverted, reserved, isolated, mysterious
abashed, alienated, alone, anonymous, antisocial, ascetic, asocial, austere, autonomous, awkward, bashful, clannish and 91 more...
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Miss Sunshine
she's such a joy.
bereaved, bitter, cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, downcast and 405 more...
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Vocab
Words that I come across, and go blank, or want to clarify.
nefarious, edifice, malevolent, ostensible, folderol, bauble, livid, amnesty, calculus, saddlery, maisonette, cuisse and 423 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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Listless
Nowhere else to put these yet.
sibilant, cloying, pithy, apologia, odyssey, amanuensis, pleasantries, ginormous, burnish, sojourn, quonset, over-under and 217 more...
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kmalladi's favorites
edification, penchant, ablution, extricate, frank, triumvirate, trifecta, egregious, hoi polloi, articulate, antediluvian, brusque and 291 more...
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adjectives
sartorial, saucy, wieldy, wuthering, dilapidated, rough-and-ready, flabbergasted, ravishing, seminal, snooty, galore, scrumptious and 386 more...
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simple & useful5
rapt, hash house, harpies, freeborn, head shot, aerodrome, kibosh, boondocks, digress, gizmo, corkscrewing, combustibility and 44 more...
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Names of fish that end in -fish.
paddlefish, goldfish, catfish, crayfish, swordfish, whitefish, monkfish, goosefish, anglerfish, jellyfish, lungfish, blackfish and 18 more...
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only the lonlies
about solitude and liking it
bashful, cautious, close-mouthed, wallflower, introverted, cold, collected, cool, demure, modest, offish, quiet and 30 more...
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Kittie
Taurus, Jupiter, luxury, cat, feline, material, earth, sand, turquoise, independence, stability, indulgence and 66 more...
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billifer's Words
phallocracy, quarto, libidinous, antihero, droog, sesquipedalian, frottage, quixotic, persnickety, agog, proclivity, logorrhea and 59 more...
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my words.
ephemeral, ambivalence, symbiosis, ineffable, transcendental, momentous, zeppelin, agoraphobia, planetarium, cleverness, ambilevous, lambent and 67 more...
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