What is another word for aloof?
1084 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ɐlˈuːf], [ ɐlˈuːf], [ ɐ_l_ˈuː_f]Table of Contents
Similar words for aloof:- aristocratic (adjective)
- arrogant (adjective)
- calm (adjective)
- casual (adjective)
- disdainful (adjective)
- disinterested (adjective)
- dispassionate (adjective)
- egotistic (adjective)
- egotistic/egoistic (adjective)
- exclusive (adjective)
- formal (adjective)
- frigid (adjective)
- glacial (adjective)
- ignorant (adjective)
- inaccessible (adjective)
- inapproachable (adjective)
- inattentive (adjective)
- incommunicable (adjective)
- incommunicative (adjective)
- incurious (adjective)
- indifferent (adjective)
- insensitive (adjective)
- insusceptible (adjective)
- just (adjective)
- neutral (adjective)
- nonaligned (adjective)
- nonchalant (adjective)
- numb (adjective)
- offish (adjective)
- passionless (adjective)
- prideful (adjective)
- remote (adjective)
- removed (adjective)
- reserved (adjective)
- secluded (adjective)
- self-controlled (adjective)
- self-involved (adjective)
- self-restrained (adjective)
- self-seeking (adjective)
- self-serving (adjective)
- senseless (adjective)
- snobbish (adjective)
- solitary (adjective)
- stoic (adjective)
- stoic/stoical (adjective)
- swellheaded (adjective)
- taciturn (adjective)
- tightlipped (adjective)
- unaffected (adjective)
- unattainable (adjective)
- unbending (adjective)
- unbiased (adjective)
- uncaring (adjective)
- uncommunicable (adjective)
- uncommunicative (adjective)
- uncompassionate (adjective)
- unconcerned (adjective)
- undemonstrative (adjective)
- unexcitable (adjective)
- unfriendly (adjective)
- uninterested (adjective)
- uninvolved (adjective)
- unpitying (adjective)
- unreachable (adjective)
- unsociable (adjective)
- unstirred (adjective)
- unsympathetic (adjective)
- uppish (adjective)
- withdrawn (adjective)
- all (adverb)
- apart (adverb)
- apart (noun)
- other synonyms
- detached
- egotistic
- unfriendly
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Aloof:
adj.
•aristocratic (adjective)- more upper-class,
- more wellborn,
- more upper class,
- wellbred,
- well bred,
- most upperclass,
- most well born,
- most wellborn,
- well-bred,
- more well born,
- blue blooded,
- well born,
- most well-born,
- upperclass,
- blueblooded,
- re fined,
- more well-born,
- most upper class,
- re-fined,
- more upperclass,
- most upper-class.
- in-solent,
- know it all,
- sniffiest,
- most coldshoulder,
- high mighty,
- sniffier,
- selfimportant,
- more cold-shoulder,
- more cold shoulder,
- most biggety,
- Over-bearing,
- more biggety,
- in solent,
- most cold shoulder,
- pretentious,
- more coldshoulder,
- more know it all,
- snootiest,
- most know-it-all,
- smartiest,
- most bragging,
- peremptory,
- pre-sumptuous,
- up-pity,
- high handed,
- superior,
- most swaggering,
- puffed up,
- self important,
- up pity,
- insolent,
- most cold-shoulder,
- more bragging,
- self-important,
- most know it all,
- high-handed,
- pre sumptuous,
- more swaggering,
- more know-it-all,
- over bearing,
- smartier.
- levelheaded,
- most pleased,
- coolheaded,
- unimpressed,
- impassive,
- cool as cucumber,
- unexcitable,
- unexcited.
- more low pressure,
- down home,
- un-fussier,
- most pococurante,
- more low-pressure,
- lowpressure,
- most low pressure,
- un fussier,
- unfussier,
- in formal,
- most low-pressure,
- most lowpressure,
- un-fussiest,
- un fussiest,
- in-formal,
- un-fussy,
- insouciant,
- folksy,
- unfussiest,
- more lowpressure,
- un fussy,
- more pococurante.
- more despising,
- anti-pathetic,
- most repudiating,
- most contemning,
- more high and mighty,
- more contemning,
- more repudiating,
- most despising,
- top lofty,
- hoity toity,
- more scouting,
- more toplofty,
- most scouting,
- most high and mighty,
- hoitytoity,
- most toplofty,
- anti pathetic,
- high-and-mighty,
- top-lofty,
- more high-and-mighty,
- most rejecting,
- more rejecting.
- outside,
- impartial,
- just watching the clock,
- not giving a damn,
- uncurious,
- nonpartisan,
- non-partisan.
- judicial,
- most cold fish,
- more poker-faced,
- Quieter,
- most poker-faced,
- couldnt care less,
- dis-passionate,
- most cold-fish,
- more iceberg,
- poker faced,
- more nondiscriminatory,
- more cold-fish,
- cold blooded,
- more coldfish,
- most nondiscriminatory,
- most poker faced,
- dis passionate,
- most iceberg,
- non-discriminatory,
- quietest,
- more cold fish,
- non discriminatory,
- coldfish,
- most coldfish,
- iceberg,
- more poker faced.
- more boasting,
- opinionated,
- most boasting,
- personal,
- more self-admiring,
- individualistic,
- stuckup,
- self centered,
- most innerdirected,
- most selfadmiring,
- most inner-directed,
- selfadmiring,
- inner-directed,
- stuck oneself,
- inner directed,
- self absorbed,
- most obsessive,
- more self admiring,
- obsessive,
- self-centered,
- most inner directed,
- most self admiring,
- selfabsorbed,
- selfcentered,
- self admiring,
- more innerdirected,
- more obsessive,
- egomaniacal,
- more inner-directed,
- more inner directed,
- most self-admiring,
- more selfadmiring,
- innerdirected.
- most exclusionary,
- more cliquish,
- more circumscribed,
- most circumscribed,
- most exclusory,
- most cliquish,
- more exclusionary,
- un divided,
- more exclusory,
- restrictive,
- dis criminative,
- upper crust,
- un-divided,
- dis-criminative.
- unattainable,
- not at hand,
- faraway,
- far off,
- Inapproachable,
- ungettable,
- unachievable,
- unreachable,
- unobtainable.
- heedless,
- negligent,
- dreamy,
- befuddled,
- unheedful,
- thoughtless,
- unconscious,
- unmindful,
- absent,
- inattentive,
- detached,
- Ignoring,
- uninterested,
- Disregardful,
- distracted,
- wandering,
- napping,
- oblivious,
- Absent-minded,
- inadvertent,
- preoccupied.
- emotionless,
- hard,
- hard-boiled,
- passive,
- coldhearted,
- ruthless,
- callous,
- unfeeling,
- Imperceptive,
- hardhearted,
- hard as nails,
- anesthetized,
- feelingless,
- stony,
- hardboiled,
- objective,
- unemotional,
- apathetic,
- hardened,
- blunt,
- cool,
- insusceptible,
- tough,
- cold-blooded,
- heartless.
- more middle of road,
- unaligned,
- dis-engaged,
- more nonparticipating,
- un-decided,
- un-committed,
- more middle-of-road,
- in-active,
- more unaligned,
- un decided,
- most bystanding,
- most unaligned,
- un committed,
- non participating,
- by standing,
- most nonparticipating,
- more nonbelligerent,
- more bystanding,
- by-standing,
- most middle-of-road,
- un-aligned,
- more noncombatant,
- most nonbelligerent,
- on fence,
- non belligerent,
- dis engaged,
- middle of road,
- non combatant,
- most noncombatant,
- un aligned,
- most middle of road.
- more disimpassioned,
- dis-impassioned,
- un impressible,
- un-perturbed,
- most unimpressible,
- dis impassioned,
- un-impressible,
- effortless,
- most disimpassioned,
- un perturbed,
- more unimpressible.
- more reclusive,
- un-companionable,
- re-served,
- re strained,
- re-tiring,
- mis anthropic,
- re-strained,
- more uncompanionable,
- de-mure,
- selfcontained,
- re tiring,
- un companionable,
- self contained,
- de mure,
- more eremitic,
- re served,
- close mouthed,
- softspoken,
- soft spoken,
- non committal,
- most eremitic,
- most uncompanionable,
- mis-anthropic.
- closeted,
- outcast,
- Extirpated,
- Banished,
- Excluded,
- Disbarred,
- alienated,
- anonymous,
- separated,
- misanthropic,
- segregated,
- Ejected,
- reclusive,
- Excommunicated,
- Deported,
- Exiled,
- cordoned,
- hermitic,
- Eliminated,
- sequestered,
- confined,
- boycott,
- alone,
- Extradited,
- secluse,
- xenophobic,
- tucked away,
- Screened,
- blockaded,
- Ostracized,
- blacklisted,
- cloistered,
- isolated,
- Expatriated,
- off beaten track,
- antisocial,
- lonely,
- off the beaten track,
- Blackballed,
- maverick.
- self involved,
- selfinvolved,
- wrapped up in oneself,
- wrapped oneself,
- wrapped up oneself,
- wrapped in oneself.
- unperceptive,
- insentient,
- insensible,
- soporific,
- blacked out,
- swooning,
- narcotic,
- trance-like,
- senseless,
- comatose,
- dull,
- dead,
- stupid,
- faint.
- un accompanied,
- more eremetic,
- in-dividual,
- most hermitical,
- un-accompanied,
- staggest,
- more hermitical,
- un-attended,
- most eremetic,
- anti social,
- de-solate,
- de solate,
- un attended,
- in dividual.
- more unaltered,
- most hard-hearted,
- more hard-hearted,
- more easy going,
- un-touched,
- proofest,
- un affected,
- un influenced,
- hard hearted,
- most easy going,
- more easy-going,
- un-influenced,
- un altered,
- un-altered,
- more hard hearted,
- un touched,
- most hard hearted,
- most unaltered,
- un-affected,
- more uninfluenced,
- most uninfluenced.
- in-flexible,
- standing one ground,
- in-compliant,
- in flexible,
- sticking to guns,
- sticking one guns,
- standing ground,
- in-elastic,
- sticking guns,
- sticking ones guns,
- un compromising,
- in-tractable,
- in tractable,
- un flexible,
- Unswayable,
- un-compromising,
- up tight,
- un relenting,
- up-tight,
- hardline,
- un-yielding,
- more unswayable,
- re solute,
- sticking one's guns,
- un-bending,
- in compliant,
- most unflexible,
- hold fort,
- hold ones ground,
- un-swayable,
- in-exorable,
- standing ones ground,
- un bending,
- set stone,
- sticking to one guns,
- sticking to ones guns,
- hold one ground,
- un-flexible,
- most unswayable,
- standing one's ground,
- re-solute,
- in elastic,
- single minded,
- more unflexible,
- do die,
- un swayable,
- hold line,
- un yielding.
- most unbigoted,
- open minded,
- openminded,
- un-biased,
- more unbigoted,
- un-bigoted,
- un biased,
- un bigoted.
- most unbothered,
- more unworried,
- un worried,
- un-worried,
- un concerned,
- more unbothered,
- un-concerned,
- unbothered,
- un bothered,
- un-bothered,
- most unworried.
- frigid,
- deadpan,
- tranquil,
- serene,
- imperturbable,
- even-tempered,
- mild,
- staid,
- level-headed,
- demure,
- moderate,
- placid,
- unflappable,
- steady,
- easygoing,
- unhurried,
- controlled,
- composed,
- self-composed,
- inscrutable,
- stolid,
- meek.
- more against,
- more estranged,
- un-favorable,
- not speaking terms,
- in-auspicious,
- un-congenial,
- un-neighborly,
- more illdisposed,
- more ill-disposed,
- most ill disposed,
- in auspicious,
- more grudging,
- in-hospitable,
- most illdisposed,
- dis-affected,
- more unneighborly,
- most against,
- illdisposed,
- un congenial,
- un-charitable,
- most ill-disposed,
- dis agreeable,
- un friendly,
- un-friendliest,
- in hospitable,
- ill disposed,
- un favorable,
- un-friendly,
- un neighborly,
- un-friendlier,
- dis affected,
- most unneighborly,
- more ill disposed,
- dis-agreeable,
- un charitable,
- not on speaking terms,
- un friendliest,
- most grudging,
- most estranged,
- un friendlier,
- un propitious.
adv.
•all (adverb) •apart (adverb)n.
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- unapproachable,
- reticent,
- attitude,
- hot.
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- concern.
Other synonyms:
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- Disengaged,
- offish,
- aside,
- laissez-faire.
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- cold.
- disobliging,
- wintry,
- brusque,
- severely,
- nice,
- stonily,
- stiffly,
- stony-faced,
- unpleasant,
- antagonistic,
- sourly,
- sour.
- forswear,
- unceremonious,
- at ease,
- unexpansive,
- Incommunicable,
- hold off,
- tense,
- unaffected by,
- allow,
- above all that,
- upstairs,
- blase,
- defect,
- forced,
- not hear of,
- smooth,
- sober,
- undisturbed,
- strait-laced,
- resigned,
- inconsistent,
- divergence,
- skyward,
- self-effacing,
- lone,
- untroubled,
- deny oneself,
- flinty,
- refrain,
- Light-hearted,
- aloofly,
- untouched,
- aloofness,
- make off,
- ignore,
- unimpassioned,
- constrained,
- aloft,
- silent,
- go away,
- bashful,
- ice-cold,
- careless,
- afar off,
- slack,
- Stony-hearted,
- retiring,
- in the distance,
- formally,
- secede,
- shove off,
- away from,
- gelid,
- spiteful,
- unruffled,
- impasse,
- stuffy,
- thick-skinned,
- lukewarm,
- Airward,
- stuck-up,
- shrinking,
- insular,
- supercilious,
- distrust,
- stand aloof,
- freezing,
- separately,
- collected,
- offhanded,
- unenthusiastic,
- leave,
- obdurate,
- unaffiliated,
- Unallied,
- deadlock,
- in a stupor,
- far,
- cease,
- high,
- unaided,
- unescorted,
- abscond,
- austere,
- frigorific,
- glowering,
- pause,
- inconsiderate,
- solo,
- unsmiling,
- above,
- quiet,
- stilted,
- offhand,
- happy-go-lucky,
- severe,
- frosty,
- uncongenial,
- be quiet,
- uninviting,
- unprejudiced,
- away,
- dismiss,
- standoff,
- torpid,
- olympian,
- parting,
- further,
- self-contained,
- incoherent,
- mindless,
- high up,
- farewell,
- informal,
- retire,
- up,
- death,
- uppish,
- stodgy,
- dour,
- broken,
- steely,
- eschew,
- peel out,
- hold,
- flee,
- stiff,
- keep off,
- inimical,
- aberration,
- unforthcoming,
- yon,
- singly,
- exit,
- wide of,
- anchoritic,
- introverted,
- abjure,
- modest,
- disappear,
- overhead,
- diffident,
- asocial,
- on high,
- tightlipped,
- benumbed,
- ungenial,
- cold-eyed,
- homeless,
- Discretely,
- sedate,
- Cold-hearted,
- subdued,
- adamant,
- pompous,
- off,
- Laodicean,
- disconnected,
- at arm's length,
- nonadjacent,
- noncommittal,
- dignified,
- keep aloof,
- depart,
- leave alone,
- nonracist,
- be inactive,
- separate,
- obstinacy,
- lonesome,
- timorous,
- cavalier,
- expressionless,
- over,
- suppressed,
- timid,
- fail,
- takeoff,
- rough,
- rusticate,
- distantly,
- dry,
- roughly,
- together,
- languid,
- cursory,
- over the border,
- division,
- spare,
- unperturbed,
- disclaim,
- conceited,
- disengage,
- avoid,
- intense,
- leaver,
- abroad,
- uptight,
- listless,
- single-handed,
- Unamiable,
- let pass,
- unresponsive,
- hostile,
- far and wide,
- in the clouds,
- outlying,
- relaxed,
- back,
- immune,
- wooden,
- sluggish,
- unwelcoming,
- friendless,
- open,
- without sympathy,
- asunder,
- severally,
- unreceptive,
- coy,
- slightly,
- taciturn,
- beyond,
- take off,
- algid,
- unclubbable,
- bored,
- regardless,
- restrained,
- supine,
- Companionless,
- Coldish,
- respectively,
- coldly,
- abovestairs,
- inhospitable,
- desert,
- stop,
- buttoned-up,
- blah,
- tie,
- mannered,
- close-mouthed,
- Numbed,
- phlegmatic,
- unassisted,
- abandon,
- retreat,
- departure,
- prim,
- lethargic,
- unassuming,
- inaccessible,
- nonadhesive,
- digression,
- Unaffable,
- deviation,
- uncommitted,
- unreactive,
- laid-back,
- putting on airs,
- laissez faire,
- disunion,
- discreet,
- refuse to believe,
- valediction,
- stupefied,
- pitiless,
- refrigerant,
- spiritless,
- discountenance,
- keep clear of,
- Unseconded,
- uttermost,
- private,
- unmoved,
- farther,
- break,
- humble,
- Unjoined,
- at a distance,
- guarded,
- discrete,
- deliver,
- come off,
- Pluckless,
- stand,
- not move,
- relinquish,
- unrelaxed,
- absent oneself,
- uncommunicable,
- tenuous,
- cold fish,
- quit,
- easy,
- crisp,
- upward,
- demise,
- lone wolf,
- yonder,
- icily,
- hebetudinous,
- discontinuous,
- serious,
- not do,
- highfalutin,
- clear of,
- grave,
- ceremonious,
- Anchoretic,
- chilled,
- decamp,
- disbelieve,
- icy,
- stay away,
- decease,
- noncoherent,
- distinctly,
- unconsolidated,
- backward,
- self-possessed,
- shut oneself up,
- hopeless,
- keep from,
- faire,
- individually,
- repressed,
- loner,
- afar,
- afield,
- play truant,
- unsupported,
- tiptoe,
- hifalutin,
- lordly,
- out of reach,
- let be,
- gapped,
- upwards,
- remotely,
- lackadaisical,
- uppity,
- grim,
- be absent,
- incommunicative,
- snooty,
- keep away,
- unattended,
- in the air,
- abstracted,
- cold-fisted,
- uninquiring,
- rootless,
- uncordial,
- vacate,
- stalemate,
- take the veil,
- unaccompanied,
- unpretentious,
- shy,
- chilling,
- desensitized,
- adios,
- superficial,
- unconnected,
- stand away,
- stern,
- rigid,
- desist,
- on ice,
- uninquisitive,
- scram,
- colorless,
- blank,
- be deaf to,
- impervious,
- coolly.
Paraphrases for Aloof:
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Independent
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Adverb
away.
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Adverb
Antonyms for Aloof:
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adj.
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remote
friendly, compassionate, kind, sympathetic, interested, concerned, sociable.
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Other antonyms:
communicative, boon, unreserved, genial, expansive, congenial, gracious, neighborly, amiable, hospitable, affable, talkative, warm, cordial, agreeable, folksy, kindly.
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remote
Homophones for Aloof:
- alive, aleppo, aleph, Ali Baba, alp, alibi, aleve, alpha, alewife, alb, alehoof, albee, alpha wave, alep.