'standoffish' definitions:
Definition of 'standoffish'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Lacking cordiality; unfriendly; "a standoffish manner" [syn: offish, standoffish]
Definition of 'standoffish'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'standoffish'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Olympian,
- 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- withdrawn