Definition for Aloof:

• At a distance but within sight; purposely keeping a part; as, to stand aloof.

Synonyms for Aloof:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • distant,
  • upstage.
  •calm (adjective)
  • coolheaded,
  • impassive,
  • unexcited,
  • unexcitable,
  • unimpressed.
  •cool (adjective)
  • offish,
  • undemonstrative.
  •disinterested (adjective)
  • uncurious,
  • non-partisan,
  • impartial.
  •glacial (adjective)
  • Seclusive.
  •ignorant (adjective)
  • unacquainted.
  •inaccessible (adjective)
  • Inapproachable,
  • unreachable,
  • faraway,
  • unattainable.
  •inattentive (adjective)
  • faraway,
  • napping,
  • oblivious,
  • unconcerned,
  • inadvertent,
  • unconscious,
  • unmindful,
  • Disregardful,
  • disinterested,
  • uninterested,
  • Absent-minded,
  • negligent,
  • inattentive,
  • detached,
  • heedless,
  • dreamy,
  • thoughtless,
  • absent,
  • wandering,
  • unheedful,
  • preoccupied,
  • befuddled,
  • distracted,
  • Ignoring.
  •indifferent (adjective)
  • uncaring,
  • unsocial.
  •insensitive (adjective)
  • hard-boiled,
  • callous,
  • dispassionate,
  • passive,
  • cool,
  • emotionless,
  • unemotional,
  • hardened,
  • hardhearted,
  • numb,
  • stony,
  • indifferent,
  • unconcerned,
  • objective,
  • insusceptible,
  • cold-blooded,
  • ruthless,
  • apathetic,
  • insensitive,
  • unsympathetic,
  • tough,
  • blunt,
  • hard,
  • detached,
  • unfeeling,
  • nonchalant,
  • heartless,
  • anesthetized,
  • uncompassionate,
  • passionless.
  •nonaligned (adjective)
  • non-aligned.
  •numb (adjective)
  • anesthetized.
  •offhand (adjective)
  • offhand.
  •offish (adjective)
  • unwelcoming.
  •out of reach (adjective)
  • inaccessible.
  •remote (adjective)
  • hard-boiled,
  • putting on airs,
  • unsociable,
  • unapproachable,
  • forbidding,
  • withdrawn,
  • unsympathetic,
  • indifferent,
  • lone wolf,
  • unfriendly,
  • Hard-hearted,
  • cold fish,
  • secluded,
  • distant,
  • chilly,
  • incurious,
  • uninterested,
  • apart,
  • uppity,
  • casual,
  • offish,
  • loner,
  • above,
  • cold,
  • on ice,
  • thick-skinned,
  • unresponsive,
  • haughty,
  • cool,
  • separate,
  • detached,
  • unconcerned,
  • standoffish,
  • at a distance,
  • supercilious,
  • reserved,
  • solitary.
  •secluded (adjective)
  • maverick,
  • closeted,
  • Exiled,
  • Disbarred,
  • lonely,
  • Extradited,
  • Expatriated,
  • reclusive,
  • secluded,
  • Eliminated,
  • Ostracized,
  • cloistered,
  • solitary,
  • isolated,
  • antisocial,
  • outcast,
  • Excluded,
  • alone,
  • Extirpated,
  • anonymous,
  • separated,
  • segregated,
  • alienated,
  • boycott,
  • blacklisted,
  • Deported,
  • Excommunicated,
  • misanthropic,
  • confined,
  • cordoned,
  • hermitic,
  • Ejected,
  • Banished,
  • detached,
  • Blackballed,
  • sequestered,
  • xenophobic.
  •senseless (adjective)
  • insentient,
  • swooning,
  • insensible,
  • dead,
  • stupid,
  • trance-like,
  • anesthetized,
  • insensitive,
  • comatose,
  • senseless,
  • dull,
  • unfeeling,
  • callous,
  • unconscious,
  • faint,
  • numb,
  • soporific,
  • unperceptive,
  • oblivious,
  • narcotic,
  • blacked out.
  •snobbish (adjective)
  • uppish.
  •taciturn (adjective)
  • incommunicative,
  • unforthcoming,
  • Incommunicable,
  • tightlipped,
  • uncommunicable.
  •unapproachable (adjective)
  • unapproachable.
  •uncommunicative (adjective)
  • taciturn.
  •unexcitable (adjective)
  • inscrutable,
  • poker-faced,
  • imperturbable,
  • demure,
  • level-headed,
  • meek,
  • calm,
  • stoical,
  • moderate,
  • reserved,
  • easygoing,
  • unhurried,
  • frigid,
  • steady,
  • unflappable,
  • apathetic,
  • numb,
  • stoic,
  • mild,
  • dispassionate,
  • controlled,
  • staid,
  • impassive,
  • passionless,
  • unexcitable,
  • deadpan,
  • detached,
  • self-controlled,
  • cold-blooded,
  • stolid,
  • self-composed,
  • cool,
  • composed,
  • nonchalant,
  • neutral,
  • even-tempered,
  • serene,
  • tranquil,
  • placid.
  •unresponsive (adjective)
  • frigid.

• n.

  •
  • Disengaged.
  •
  • hot,
  • chilly,
  • unapproachable,
  • withdrawn,
  • standoffish,
  • chill,
  • undemonstrative,
  • attitude,
  • reticent,
  • uncommunicative,
  • offish.
  •
  • incurious,
  • uninvolved,
  • concern.
  •aloof (noun)
  • distant,
  • reserved.

• v.

  •cool (verb)
  • standoffish.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Disengaged,
  • uninvolved,
  • aside,
  • offish.
  •
  • chill,
  • chilly,
  • aristocratic,
  • undemonstrative,
  • unfriendly,
  • incurious.
  •
  • reticent,
  • uncommunicative,
  • cold.
  •aside
  • apart.
  •detached
  • impersonal.
  •distant
  • distant,
  • unapproachable.
  •egotistic
  • proud.
  •introverted
  • withdrawn.
  •placid
  • self-possessed.
  •restricted
  • exclusive.
  •unfriendly
  • hostile,
  • forbidding,
  • uncaring,
  • roughly,
  • icily,
  • haughty,
  • inimical,
  • severe,
  • unwelcoming,
  • glacial,
  • offhand,
  • rough,
  • unsmiling,
  • spiteful,
  • grim,
  • Cold-hearted,
  • dour,
  • coolly,
  • ill-disposed,
  • icy,
  • stiff,
  • inhospitable.
  •unobtainable
  • inaccessible.
  •Other relevant words:
  • freezing,
  • flee,
  • superficial,
  • afar,
  • adamant,
  • sober,
  • cease,
  • unforthcoming,
  • unaffiliated,
  • vacate,
  • unexcited,
  • desert,
  • uppish,
  • digression,
  • buttoned-up,
  • coy,
  • chill,
  • fail,
  • refrain,
  • away from,
  • rootless,
  • exit,
  • lordly,
  • unapproachable,
  • retiring,
  • repressed,
  • spiritless,
  • nonracist,
  • grave,
  • pause,
  • self-possessed,
  • frigorific,
  • humble,
  • discrete,
  • keep clear of,
  • unaided,
  • separately,
  • undisturbed,
  • restrained,
  • impasse,
  • quiet,
  • deliver,
  • careless,
  • unimpressed,
  • inconsiderate,
  • independently,
  • mannered,
  • eremitic,
  • discreet,
  • phlegmatic,
  • severe,
  • deadlock,
  • frosty,
  • keep away,
  • disconnected,
  • leave alone,
  • cold,
  • silent,
  • distantly,
  • disappear,
  • impervious,
  • shy,
  • shove off,
  • above,
  • far,
  • uncaring,
  • not do,
  • aloft,
  • private,
  • adios,
  • hifalutin,
  • uninfluenced,
  • egotistic,
  • wooden,
  • Anchoretic,
  • Hard-hearted,
  • inaccessible,
  • self-contained,
  • proud,
  • dry,
  • obdurate,
  • let pass,
  • asunder,
  • friendless,
  • conceited,
  • Self-restrained,
  • gelid,
  • uncommunicable,
  • thick-skinned,
  • icy,
  • nonadhesive,
  • unescorted,
  • unreactive,
  • singly,
  • intense,
  • suppressed,
  • sedate,
  • deny oneself,
  • be deaf to,
  • hopeless,
  • retire,
  • unassisted,
  • be absent,
  • death,
  • uninquisitive,
  • slightly,
  • far and wide,
  • modest,
  • deviation,
  • tiptoe,
  • unfriendly,
  • stuffy,
  • pitiless,
  • uninquiring,
  • ceremonious,
  • without sympathy,
  • mindless,
  • leaver,
  • smooth,
  • shut oneself up,
  • crisp,
  • Stony-hearted,
  • scram,
  • impersonal,
  • forced,
  • inimical,
  • stop,
  • happy-go-lucky,
  • yonder,
  • clear of,
  • aristocratic,
  • unbending,
  • in the distance,
  • incoherent,
  • unaccompanied,
  • valediction,
  • be quiet,
  • come off,
  • flinty,
  • unstirred,
  • out of reach,
  • eschew,
  • remotely,
  • quit,
  • play truant,
  • unacquainted,
  • upstage,
  • algid,
  • noncoherent,
  • beyond,
  • abjure,
  • spare,
  • Unamiable,
  • unreachable,
  • impartial,
  • desensitized,
  • non-partisan,
  • collected,
  • timorous,
  • unperturbed,
  • unimpassioned,
  • disbelieve,
  • farther,
  • taciturn,
  • standoffish,
  • disclaim,
  • unsocial,
  • loner,
  • keep off,
  • stand away,
  • back,
  • off,
  • open,
  • defect,
  • individually,
  • separate,
  • discountenance,
  • parting,
  • outlying,
  • on ice,
  • coolly,
  • overhead,
  • single-handed,
  • unexpansive,
  • regardless,
  • uncommitted,
  • ice-cold,
  • snobbish,
  • concern,
  • gapped,
  • serious,
  • homeless,
  • asocial,
  • prideful,
  • unsmiling,
  • on high,
  • uncurious,
  • unceremonious,
  • abandon,
  • unprejudiced,
  • Airward,
  • faire,
  • lone,
  • benumbed,
  • close-mouthed,
  • rigid,
  • obstinacy,
  • afar off,
  • stand,
  • self-seeking,
  • glowering,
  • high,
  • aberration,
  • disengage,
  • offhand,
  • distrust,
  • Seclusive,
  • lukewarm,
  • abroad,
  • afield,
  • aloofly,
  • distinctly,
  • take off,
  • further,
  • forswear,
  • hold,
  • stay away,
  • stuck-up,
  • highfalutin,
  • unbiased,
  • remote,
  • slack,
  • guarded,
  • lackadaisical,
  • keep aloof,
  • unsupported,
  • peel out,
  • unaffected,
  • snooty,
  • exclusive,
  • stilted,
  • insusceptible,
  • torpid,
  • just,
  • haughty,
  • stodgy,
  • undemonstrative,
  • Laodicean,
  • stiff,
  • offish,
  • Discretely,
  • not hear of,
  • Disengaged,
  • respectively,
  • stupefied,
  • unwelcoming,
  • inhospitable,
  • coldly,
  • Unaffable,
  • steely,
  • let be,
  • non-aligned,
  • retreat,
  • solo,
  • break,
  • ungenial,
  • introverted,
  • disunion,
  • wide of,
  • Coldish,
  • unattended,
  • leave,
  • incurious,
  • laissez faire,
  • unconnected,
  • aloofness,
  • high up,
  • listless,
  • Numbed,
  • coolheaded,
  • skyward,
  • hostile,
  • abscond,
  • ill-disposed,
  • dour,
  • not move,
  • timid,
  • Incommunicable,
  • avoid,
  • uninvolved,
  • attitude,
  • prim,
  • unmoved,
  • languid,
  • chilling,
  • insular,
  • ignore,
  • at ease,
  • uncordial,
  • rough,
  • broken,
  • at arm's length,
  • glacial,
  • informal,
  • putting on airs,
  • unattainable,
  • removed,
  • untouched,
  • bored,
  • distant,
  • lonesome,
  • Inapproachable,
  • reticent,
  • spiteful,
  • nonaligned,
  • olympian,
  • unreceptive,
  • takeoff,
  • grim,
  • apart,
  • unrelaxed,
  • unpitying,
  • division,
  • unconsolidated,
  • dignified,
  • uninviting,
  • decamp,
  • self-involved,
  • uppity,
  • abstracted,
  • farewell,
  • icily,
  • colorless,
  • demise,
  • swank,
  • over,
  • upward,
  • backward,
  • severally,
  • noncommittal,
  • divergence,
  • keep from,
  • rusticate,
  • formal,
  • diffident,
  • tense,
  • unloving,
  • self-effacing,
  • easy,
  • uptight,
  • unsociable,
  • nonadjacent,
  • in the clouds,
  • sluggish,
  • uncommunicative,
  • offhanded,
  • resigned,
  • roughly,
  • at a distance,
  • inconsistent,
  • depart,
  • dismiss,
  • make off,
  • expressionless,
  • Unseconded,
  • tightlipped,
  • hold off,
  • austere,
  • casual,
  • discontinuous,
  • take the veil,
  • laid-back,
  • Light-hearted,
  • yon,
  • immune,
  • relinquish,
  • up,
  • Uncompanionable,
  • relaxed,
  • supercilious,
  • Cold-hearted,
  • cold fish,
  • hebetudinous,
  • tenuous,
  • absent oneself,
  • in the air,
  • arrogant,
  • allow,
  • constrained,
  • hot,
  • lone wolf,
  • tie,
  • blah,
  • formally,
  • insouciant,
  • decease,
  • non-combatant,
  • upstairs,
  • departure,
  • chilled,
  • Unjoined,
  • cold-eyed,
  • Unallied,
  • unclubbable,
  • stern,
  • unenthusiastic,
  • Companionless,
  • blase,
  • cursory,
  • upwards,
  • go away,
  • withdrawn,
  • non-belligerent,
  • subdued,
  • bashful,
  • unaffected by,
  • refrigerant,
  • chilly,
  • cavalier,
  • pompous,
  • unpretentious,
  • unresponsive,
  • be inactive,
  • anchoritic,
  • over the border,
  • incommunicative,
  • aside,
  • desist,
  • standoff,
  • supine,
  • disdainful,
  • forbidding,
  • unruffled,
  • stand aloof,
  • blank,
  • strait-laced,
  • secede,
  • uttermost,
  • Pluckless,
  • unaligned,
  • Pococurante,
  • untroubled,
  • uncongenial,
  • together,
  • shrinking,
  • away,
  • stalemate,
  • lethargic,
  • unassuming.

Antonyms for Aloof:

• adj.

  • remote
    concerned, friendly, interested, sympathetic, compassionate, warm, kind, sociable.
  • Other antonyms:
    communicative, boon, unreserved, genial, expansive, congenial, gracious, neighborly, amiable, hospitable, affable, talkative, warm, cordial, agreeable, folksy, kindly.

Homophones for Aloof:

• alive, aleppo, aleph, Ali Baba, alp, alibi, aleve, alpha, alewife, alb, alehoof, albee, alpha wave, alep.