Definition of aloof Aloof
/ʌluˈf/ - [uluf] - a•loof
We found 17 definitions of aloof from 8 different sources.
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What does aloof mean?
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Adjectivealoof, aloofer, aloofest |
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| aloof - remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers" | ||
| distant, upstage | ||
| reserved marked by self-restraint and reticence; "was habitually reserved in speech, withholding her opinion"-Victoria Sackville-West | ||
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| aloof - in an aloof manner; "the local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons readily enough" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- aloof (n.)
Same as Alewife. - aloof (adv.)
At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away. - aloof (adv.)
Without sympathy; unfavorably. - aloof (prep.)
Away from; clear from.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation. -
aloof
Apart or at a distance from other people. -
aloof
Not sociable and friendly.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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aloof
a-lōōf′, adv. at a distance: apart.—n. Aloof′ness, withdrawal from common action or sympathy. [Pfx. a- (—A.S. on), on, and Loof, prob. Dut. loef. See Luff.]
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️
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lof, this has frequently been mentioned as a sea-term, but whether justly or not we shall not presume to determine; it is known in common discourse to imply, at a distance; and the resemblance of the phrases, keep aloof, and keep a luff, or keep the luff, in all probability gave rise to this conjecture. If it was really a sea-phrase originally, it seems to have referred to the dangers of a lee-shore, in which situation the pilot might naturally apply it in the sense commonly understood, viz. keep all off, or quite off: it is, however, never expressed in that manner by seamen now. See LUFF. It may not be improper to observe, that, besides using this phrase in the same sense with us, the French also call the weather side of a ship, and the weather clue of a course, le lof.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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The old word for "keep your luff," in the act of sailing to the wind. (See LUFF.)--Keep aloof, at a distance. -
aloof
Nearer to the wind. This is a very old form of luff; being noticed by Matthew Paris, and other writers, as a sea-term. (See LUFF.)
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